LGM wishes a happy 33rd birthday to Duncan Black. Nice to see that at least one extraordinarily successful blogger is older than I am, unlike Mr. Klein, Mr. Taylor, or Mr. Yglesias.
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Erik at Alterdestiny has tired of talking with leftists whose only knowledge of American history comes via Howard Zinn. Accordingly, he has put together a history reading list for progressives. He.
It is well known among those familiar with me that I watch a great deal of TV. Less well known is the fact that I'm actually a discriminating consumer of.
Henry Farrell links to an article by Stephen Walt in the latest Boston Review on the future of American foreign policy. Farrell is a bit surprised that a realist like Walt would advocate the following policy: In exchange for a more reliable nonproliferation regime (accompanied...
Via USS Mariner, it looks as if the rules that govern fantasy baseball's relationship to Major League Baseball have changed. I'll confess to not being able to fully understand what's going.
I think Matt Yglesias is spot on; an Iranian style government in Iraq means little or nothing to the attitude of that government towards Iran. In international politics, and especially with.
Henry Wirz was the Confederate commander at Andersonville, and one of a very few important Confederates hanged at the end of the war. After watching a crappy History Channel documentary on his trial, the following question struck me: Should the Union have pursued its relatively...
I'm looking out my window at yet another beautiful February day in Seattle. It's crystal clear, 41 degrees, not a cloud in the sky. Such days have become commonplace. Some.
Rewatching the Daily Show, I'm reminded of perhaps the most reprehensible words that our President has spoken: The strong have a duty to protect the weak Unless, of course, the.
For such a horrible little country, I find North Korea to be bizarrely endearing: "We advise the U.S. to negotiate with dealers in peasant markets it claims that are to its liking or with representatives of the organization of North Korean defectors on its payroll, if...
My position at the University of Washington is a bit unusual. After seven years (eight? I can't even remember) of being a graduate student, I finished my dissertation and was.
Check out the cool discussion on Johns Ford and Wayne between Lance Mannion, James Wolcott, and a variety of others here, here, here, here, and here. The matter of the discussion has to do.