My friend has a theory, and it's an interesting one. One variant of Trump's Razor holds that all of his behavior is ultimately rooted in his narcissism. As has been clear for a while, he's fairly easily to goad. He's obsessed with slights against him. That...
Author: Dan Nexon
Dan Nexon is a Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. You can read all about the gory details of his academic work at https://www.dhnexon.net
With only superficial changes, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld's new piece in Politico could have appeared—at one time or another—in a pro-government outlet in, say, Azerbaijan, North Korea,.
I'm sorry that I haven't been posting lately. Lots of travel and work. But I do have a shiny new episode of Foreign Entanglements—yes, I've joined the masthead there and thereby.
If you haven't heard yet, the Department of Homeland Security has ordered carriers to force customers to check a number of electronic devices on flights originating from a number of airports in majority-Muslim countries. Passengers on foreign...
I promised a Part IV, but Foreign Policy asked me to do a piece for them... so I'm pointing you all there. You've seen some of the arguments before, but not all of.
The Urban Dictionary, which helpfully defines "freep" for those of you too young to know the term, has had it's definition of "mansplaining" hijacked by misogynists. I suggest that readers go.
I've been a member of the Lawyers, Guns and Money team for some months now, and yet I believe that I've written only one post criticizing Glenn Greenwald. As I'm clearly not meeting my quota, I need to say a few word about this particular monstrosity...
I wasn't that enthusiastic about writing another installment. There's only so much satisfaction from bashing an obvious vanity dissertation. But now I see that some right-wing media outlets are alleging a conspiracy.
Julia Ioffe's article on her interviews with career State Department employees manages to be heartbreaking, appalling, and frightening at the same time. You should read the whole thing, but here.
I In my prior post, I tried to make clear that you don't need to get very far—less than twenty pages, in fact—into Gorka's dissertation to recognize its academic shoddiness. Something like 7% of it is a cut-and-paste job from an earlier article. In of itself, that's...
We should exercise caution when.
On the plus side, the FBI rejected the request. On the massively minus side, the White House violated long-standing restrictions designed to protect ongoing investigations. The FBI rejected a recent White.