K-Lo:I cringe — like many of us — when I read that the shoe-thrower may have been beaten in prison. For p.r. if nothing else, guys! But another wrong does not make a right — or a desire in me to understand the root cause; forgive...
I think that Burg's comments on Masada could stand in for any number of other nationalistic narratives of catastrophic defeats:Also, Gershom is the coolest looking person I know.
This is a pretty awesome sort-of-job-market story for aspiring academics. Having sat on more hiring committees than I'd care to think about, I'm still amazed by the capacity of some.
Former Cap'n Morrissey gives us a rousing chorus of "Kumbayah":Racial divide? Didn’t this election prove that our racial divide had moved to the past? Barack Obama didn’t win from the black vote — he won a majority of white voters as well. While racism will never...
The Madoff affair is interesting on a bunch of levels -- psychologically, politically, and sociologically, among others.Something that ought to be looked into vigorously by the new administration is how.
Torture isn't about effectiveness, it's about toughness. As we know from Usual Suspects, the winner is the one with the most WILL; if Reuel Marc Gerecht believes that brutally torturing.
About the only takeaway from this piece is that Sean Wilentz's hold on the title of Greatest Wanker in the American Historical Profession remains secure for another quarter. The article itself is quite awful in its own right. Its thesis is little more than a secularized...
Sacha Zimmerman approvingly cites this New York article. Alas, she doesn't deal with its fundamental problems, most notably its reliance on anecdotes and otherwise less-than-impartial data and the fact that.
Don Surber, reassuring his readers that everything is OK, no matter how many shoes are tossed at the president.Dude, chill. Iraq was a Soviet client. It just signed a security.
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Dear Dave,I appreciate that Iraqi ingratitude must be grating to those who have seen friends fight and die in Iraq. I really do. The point, though, is that the Iraqis,.
On to chapter VI of From Colony to Superpower, but first make sure to read Paul's final thoughts on chapter V (here and here). He takes issue (as several others.