On this week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, I chatted with Jason Sorens of Pileus about Conor Friedersdorf’s “dealbreaker” essay, and about libertarian views of foreign policy more generally: It was a good discussion, even if the video formatting makes it look pretty damn weird.
Month: October 2012
Please, never ever stop your vanity bunting; it’s what makes you great, I swear.
If you’re at all informed, you have to be one world-class sucker to think that the Mitt Romney who presented himself at this weeks debate will bear any resemblance to how Mitt Romney would gover
Glenn’s post about the debates identifies a very real problem: that crucial issues like the War (On Some Classes Of People Who Use Some) Drugs and the prison-industrial complex are almost entirely ignored in mainstream political discourse, and voters are not presented with a real alternative. But the solution, I think, gets at the problem […]
It’s been eighteen years; we’ve won eight games in a row, each by 17 points or more; the coaches of both teams now explicitly play down the rivalry. Isn’t it time to retire this clip
John has retreated to the twin bastions of “I’m being misquoted!” [post since revised/removed] and “I was only trying to be provocative!” Of the former: And now I have my
Alas, for all too many MLB umpires this represents an ordinary effort. And the postseason OF umpires go from their typically useless (hello Phil Cuzzi and Richie Garcia!) to become actively counterproductive, as it’s impossible to imagine that particular atrocious call being made by a normal umpire rather than a bored sixth one.
I think Tom Scocca’s initial reaction to the hiring of Dan Duquette was pretty typical: In the end, the Orioles announced that their new general manager would be Dan Duquette. I believe I swore
Ryan is indeed Goldwater except without any of the halfway redeeming features.
In order to prove that battleships had little utility in World War II, John Quiggin links to this list of battleship losses. As you’ll note, this list includes a variety of vessels that no reputable historian of World War II maritime affairs would call “battleships,” including pre-dreadnoughts serving in the Greek and German navies, the […]
Back in April, John Quiggin wrote what was at the time, to my mind, the worst post in the history of Crooked Timber. To their credit, the commenters at CT utterly disassembled the first iteration of t
There’s a bit of a discussion going on in comments here about the power that Congress has to essentially fire judges, and rather than post a long comment I thought I’d do a post on it.