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Month: June 2010
I am happily in receipt of a letter from University of Massachusetts’ Chancellor Holub informing me that I have been awarded tenure. Of course you know what this means: the days of keeping outsi
Some lazy Wednesday night blogging… Germany to reduce term of conscription. The anatomy of France’s worst humiliation since June 22, 1940. North Korea’s 7-0 thrashing at the hands of
There are consequences for devotion to big coal? Wendell Berry, perhaps Kentucky’s best-known writer, is pulling many of his personal papers from the University of Kentucky’s archives to p
The general interest in healthy civil-military relations in the United States is more important than the outcome of the war in Afghanistan. Even were McChrystal absolutely critical to that effort (and
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As of 2 hours ago, he is said to have offered it. According to Jon Western: This can not end well for McChrystal. He has a lot of support here, but this crossed so many lines– civil-military rel
I can’t believe that conservatives really think that there’s something unusual about the state using leverage to extract agreements without a full trial, but that really does seem to be th
This is simply wrong: One of the principal aspects that make the “weak presidency” claim so laughable is that the post-World-War II presidency has done virtually nothing but expand in power. The President controls virtually the entire Pentagon and intelligence industry, and all administrative agencies, with very few limits. That includes a massive amount of […]
Daniel Drezner has expounded on his seminal “Zombies and IR” blog post with a full spread on the topic in the July/August Foreign Policy: The specter of an uprising of reanimated corpses&#
Although it would be nice to think that Col. Mustard was a crank outlier, Roy has been doing a good job of rounding up people who believe that the Constitution should be correctly understood as enacti