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.
Minor Rome spoilers, but if they're actually spoilers for you then you need to go and read a damn history book...I was untroubled by the exclusion of Antony's funeral oration for Caesar. Seems to me that any effort would invariably have evoked an unflattering comparison to...
Among the many things I hate about the start of each semester -- e.g., having to leave the house, having to wear pants, etc. -- I am especially distressed by.
Adam B does a very good job with this exceedingly strange SundayStyles column. But I was particularly struck by this:He had left school immediately after the incident. He knew the.
Kaus:I wonder how much of the blame for the "too late" part will turn out to fall on Karl Rove. It seems highly likely that Bush knew many months ago that a new Iraq plan was needed, but delayed for fear of disrupting his overconfident Republican...
Because of some serious F-Train issues on my way to meet a friend before the (excellent) Secret Society gig, I missed almost all of the second half, so I can't.
Mediocre Oregon teams have defeated great opponents before at Mac Court. Mediocre teams rarely win at Arizona, though.