I'll be web chatting at the Lexington Herald-Leader tomorrow from 1-2pm. Israel-Hizbollah Conflict is the topic.
"Behind all the glamour and idealism of the Kennedy administration, Nick Bryant would have us see something else in "The Bystander": the calculating, often quite cynical, political mind of John.
It's things like this that make it hard for me to be sympathetic to Chavez apologists:Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hailed the man dubbed "Europe's last dictator" Monday as he started.
Unsurprisingly, there are some psychological obstacles to a "tit-for-tat" strategy:In a study conducted by William Swann and colleagues at the University of Texas, pairs of volunteers played the roles of world leaders who were trying to decide whether to initiate a nuclear strike. The first volunteer...
Matthew asks:But none of this changes the fact that it is Hezbullah that retains an armed "state within a state" in defiance of UN resolutions and the Taif Accords, that.
Yglesias, Fontana Labs, and Farrell have already dealt with this reprehensible Alan Dershowitz column, which goes entirely off the moral rails with its claim that "[t]he Israeli army has given.
Part IPart IIPart IIIPart IVPart VPart VITCG Yavuz resumed her duty as the flagship of the Turkish Navy in 1930. Much had changed since she was last operational, however. The German Empire had vanished, and the High Seas Fleet lay at the bottom in the British...
Unwittingly:WALLACE: But isn’t that the result of what’s happened in Iraq?KRISTOL: No, it’s a result of our deducing from the situation in Iraq that we can’t stand up to Iran..
Icky.Prisoners are executed by hanging—a process known to produce "gruesome scenes of slow strangulation and even decapitation." And prisoners sitting on death row don't even know when they'll actually die..
Three observations on the Douhat's preference of Shyamalan over Nolan, Raimi, and Singer:1. It's not reasonable to dismiss films about comic book characters. Spiderman and Batman have as rich a literary heritage as virtually any fictional characters available to us. Directors and actors have much to...
I was happy to see that Criterion has finally issues a good DVD transfer of Edward Yang's magnificent Yi Yi. If you haven't seen it, get it in your Netflix.
Friday Cat Blogging... Stromboli