Far be it from me to decry any of my countrymen, but I cannot resist. In no particular order, and including both those crimes aesthetic and political...J. Edgar Hoover: I don't think that civil liberty in the United States has ever had a more committed enemy....
Chris Bertram reminds us that contemporary discussions of American imperialism miss out on the fact that the United States has historically been a very successful imperial power. It's not as.
Causey to testify against Lay and Skilling. Bye-bye!
Julia Speak, You Listen.
Once it was decided that my visiting family would be seeing a movie on Christmas Day I was resigned to sitting through The Family Stone or some such, but everyone.
Christmas is over, and we hold the field of battle.
Tara McKelvey had a terrific article in The Nation recently about academics left and right--some of whom have been called "libertarians"--who have engaged in casual defenses of torture. She's particularly good at identifying the idea, also so evident in the defenses of Bush's illegal surveillance, that...
I believe this would make this year's tally white hats 4, black hats zip. (Well, to be fair, the Neckbreakers are 0-3-1.)In better news, the lack of stereo has been.
In addition to being funny, DeLong's anticipatory satire of Charles Krauthammer actually has a serious point: would Krauthammer, or any of the large number of conservative pundits who have endorsed.
I welcome Dave, the fan who introduced me to the show (and put the cool poster in our office) to append comments, but I must admit viewing this project with some measure of apprehension. It's hard to replicate the spirit of a series this long afterward,...
Light blogging as I ferry the visiting family around NYC (and, really, who's reading now anyway?), so happy Christ/ukah tomorrow to all of LGM's readers and critics!
Fred Kaplan has a good column on Pentagon budget priorities:Earlier this month, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England signed a directive declaring, "Stability operations are a core U.S. military mission..