Dave and Gary both have both commented on Yglesias' post on George Kennan and the appreciation of foreign policy expertise at the beginning of the Cold War. I'd like to further note that the situation that developed in the diplomatic and intelligence communities regarding China at...
Evidence cannot discredit revolutionary doctrine, as the revolutionaries simply interpret new evidence in whatever way they see fit. Air power enthusiasts have taken rather a hit lately, first with the.
Charles Pierce reminds me of my favorite conspiracy, Operation Northwoods. In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of.
The Wall Street Journal had decided to turn the question of the scientific value of the recent Lancet study over to...former Hair Club For Growth uber-hack Stephen Moore. Stephen Moore. Yes, that Stephen Moore. Who's next up, Tim Blair?Whoops--as noted by Matt in comments, it's actually...
Behold:Charles P. Strite, born in Minneapolis, MN, received patent #1,394,450 on October 18, 1921 for the bread-toaster. During World War I, Strite worked in a manufacturing plant in Stillwater, MN,.
Yglesias asks the above question in regards to the decision to announce unilateral space hegemony at exactly the same time that we're trying to secure Russian and Chinese cooperation on.
I have a new post at TAPPED up about the ludicrous fake outrage surrounding the outing of Larry Craig. See also Mona, Glenn, and Pam. Shakes defends outing in limited circumstances....I see that Patterico endorses the Captain's nonsensical point that outing Craig is a "personal and...
For those of you weren't aware of what this new ad is copying, note the original Jesse Helms ad above. Except that the new one seems to be for people.
From the Times' second most e-mailed story of the past several days (behind something on the arcane and mildly distressing subject of "preschool puberty"):Representative Jo Ann Davis, a Virginia Republican.
Diane Nash, as Erik Loomis explains.Sadly, the centrality of women to the civil rights movement has only become faintly visible to most Americans with the deaths of Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King in the past year. Even now, however, popular historical memory has little room...
Fascinating.In "Steel Drivin’ Man," Scott Reynolds Nelson argues that the John Henry story was no tall tale, and Henry himself no myth. Historians have long speculated that the John Henry.
Very nice post from Ezra Klein:More pernicious, I'm starting to think, is anti-paranoid punditry in American politics, in which scary-but-plausible theories are dismissed simply by calling them conspiratorial. Because we.