Partially making up for the inept review they commissioned for the Roberts book, The Times examines the data and finds that it's highly implausible. (At the very least, if he was doing it it didn't seem to have any effect.) Given how weak Roberts's sourcing is,...
It's hard to disagree with David Kilcullen and Andrew Exum on the drone issue:Governments typically make several mistakes when attempting to separate violent extremists from populations in which they hide..
This should prove remarkably interesting; a Zhao Ziyang recorded memoir of his CCP tenure during the 1980s has been smuggled out of China and is being published:But in this long,.
The government is on the verge of crushing the last remnant of the Tigers in Sri Lanka. The military defeat of the Tigers won't exactly solve the political issues in Sri Lanka, as the Tamil minority continues to have serious, legitimate grievances with the government. Those...
Moralistic hand-wringing about steroids is frequently accompanied by somewhat extravagant claims about the dramatic impact they have/had on individual player performances and the game itself. In the thread below, we.
Although the general assumption that today's PEDs are the biggest threat to the Integritude of the Game Ever, much much worse than the ones Mickey Mantle used is to be.
The Patterson School's new summer reading list is out. I've recently finished the Kilcullen and the Bacevich, both of which are quite good; reviews pending. Also, David Wescott of Business Lexington has a column up about our recent pirate related policy simulation. On a related point,...
I'm back from Seattle, after a week of blog abstinence broken only by some very minor comment maintenance. Thanks very much to Charli Carpenter, who filled in very capably. My.
Roger Eugene Ailes, president at the odious Fox News Network, was born 69 years ago today in Warren, Ohio. (In a remarkable convergence of douchebaggery, Warren would also host the.
I have some thoughts about the widely trumpeted but not terribly meaningful new surveys here. (Short version: talk to me if this persists for at least a year and shows up in surveys with better questions.) See also Sarah Posner on why it's a bad idea...
Shorter Charles Krauthammer: "I have an open-and-shut case for a "ticking time bomb" scenario that justifies torture. In this case, there was no ticking time bomb, and the torture didn't.
If you think that careful evaluations of a judge's opinions are more relevant than anonymous gossip, Tom Goldstein's post is for you. As one would expect, the opinions are those.