Month: February 2011
...that extreme variations of Hooverism wouldn't work. Cf. also the brief conservative love affair with Germany.
This is as fine a likeness of Mr. Matthew Duss as I've ever seen:
Speaking of moribund fourth-rate conservative sites, I decided to check out the Daily Tucker to see how their own recycled conservative hire is doing. The answer, apparently, is that Kaus.
As G.M.'s healthy profit makes clear, it's been a striking policy success that Republicans in Congress were wrong about. For a strikingly non-prescient column, your moment of Bobo from 2009..
Professor Michael Gross left a lengthy response at Current Intelligence to my remarks about his characterization of asymmetric war. I'm afraid he seems displeased with me: Far superior to faint.
When I saw this Guardian piece about Saif al-Islam Gadhafi's PhD thesis on global democratization from LSE, I thought David Held's 'Saif as tragic Shakespearean figure' narrative came across as.
As Lithwick says, the only problem with the Obama administration's actions is that it took too long.
Again from Michael Hastings. This time, the story is being spun as "US Military Targets US Officials" but if it's true (and many are casting doubt) then the interesting story.