Bo Yibo, last of the Eight Immortals of the Communist Party, has shuffled off his mortal coil. Bo Yibo is one of the very last of the Long March generation, which ascended to power in China at a relatively young age and held onto it until...
Ezra points us to Julian Sanchez's excellent rebuttal to Megan McArdle's claim that critics of the war were just a wrong as the supporters. For my part, it's somewhat difficult.
In light of the recent discussion about rape on campus, it's particularly worth reading Courtney Martin's article about this country's dearth of rational sex education and the extent to which.
From the recent Times article about attempts to turn Atlas Shrugged into a movie:Under Mr. Aglialoro’s sponsorship a succession of writers and producers developed at least four scripts. One writer was Mr. Peikoff’s ex-wife, Cynthia Peikoff, who had been Rand’s typist. Some of the scripts, she...
So, I'm sitting in my office minding my own business when I hear dripping. My office is on the fourth floor of Patterson Office Tower, so I don't typically worry.
Make sure to wish Jane well.
Donald Stoker is correct insofar as he notes that the success record of insurgencies isn't great. Yglesias and Drum note that the successful counter-insurgency campaigns that Stoker points out were fought by local governments rather than occupying powers, which is more or less correct, although there...
For complicated reasons, I actually head-butted my department's printer today. I don't really know what was going on in my brain at the time, but I'm pretty sure I decided.
With respect to Sunday's appalling New York Times op-ed making a series of disingenuous excuses for a rapist, Amanda found a Harvard Crimson article that details the faculty debate on.
Yglesias and Atrios briefly discuss the failure of US diplomacy prior to the first Gulf War. Atrios wonders if the war could have been avoided, and Yglesias allows that while this is a sensible question, military action in the context of UN approval still made sense.The...
Marty Peretz, while engaging in some pro forma lunacy about the Middle East, unleashes some quite original lunacy:Who knows what animates Gorbachev? Maybe he hopes just to be remembered. He.
I'll resist the temptation to joke about how I was going to post on this until -- you know -- other stuff came up.In 1978, only about 5% of the.