My latest at the National Interest is a broad assessment of the role of PGMs in American grand strategy: How has the growth of the Precision-Guided Munitions (PGM) complex changed the balance of international power? More specifically, how has the U.S. military’s embrace of this...
Month: October 2014
It's days like this that I wish he had the old JS-KIT comment thread of Yankee fans defending the pathetic whining of George Steinbrenner, because it was logically impossible for.
It is absolutely true that sometime supporters of the Israeli state conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. But it is also true that sometimes anti-Zionism is invoked as an excuse by anti-Semites..
For some Friday comedy gold, the man who gave us Iraq and Alito has a voicemail arguing in the course of one of his favorite non-sequiturs that the word "spoiler" is a "politically bigoted" term. To briefly re-state the obvious, 1)while all candidates are trying...
It is 4 a.m. I am alone downstairs, when all of a sudden, in the kitchen, I hear someone saying, "Hello? Is anybody there? Hello?" "Hello," I reply, and walk.
When my son developed an interest in dinosaurs and pre-historic life, he awakened a latent interest in me. I often ask him what his favorite dino (T-Rex) is, so I.
In the wake of Penn State's decision to drop its Confucius Institute: And so at risk of pursuing the mushy middle road, we in academia can grant that the Confucius Institutes represent an act of (not entirely disinterested) generosity on the part of the People’s...
Oslo is dropping out of bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics, leaving Almaty, Kazakhstan and Beijing as the only remaining cities seeking to host the event. Why? One reason is.
Sometimes I wish I were a person of faith, if only so that I could say, on occasion: "Roasted cauliflower is proof that god loves us and wants us to.
Shorter America's Worst Governor: "I have principles. But in the unlikely event that I have a principle that isn't horrible, my friends the Kochs will make sure I find a new principle."
I'd like to say I'm surprised that Sam Harris would give us the "but I married one!" routine and that Richard Dawkins would engage in rape apologia that would be.
How implausible does a white man's self-defense claim have to be before he can be convicted of killing a black teenager by a mostly white jury in Florida? Michael Dunn.