Oh, dear. Prominent Chinese American author Iris Chang, whose international bestseller "The Rape of Nanking" resurrected the long-ignored atrocities by the Japanese military on Chinese civilians during World War II, died Nov. 9 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in her car along a rural road south...
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Brad and Matt are having a conversation that I absolute must comment on. My inner nerd demands it. Brad Delong, thinking outside the box, concludes that Neville Chamberlain made a mistake.
A few months ago, I saw a commercial (or possibly a preview, hard to say) for a film starring Richard Gere, J-Lo, and Susan Sarandon. Normally, I wouldn't pay much.
And another thing. . . I've been arguing recently in class that the Iraq War doesn't pass the laugh test as a pre-emptive war. A pre-emptive war, of course, requires the presence of an imminent threat, which even the administration has admitted never existed. A...
We need to revisit part of LTC Smith's Weekly Standard article: Historical apologists say that the Japanese were "forced" to attack us because we were strangling their trade in Asia. Sound.
Lieutenant Colonel Powl Smith has an article in the latest Weekly Standard, alluded to below by DJW. I will reserve judgement as to whether LTC Smith actually believes the argument that.
Alan Krueger and David Laitin have an article in the latest Foreign Affairs discussing the State Department's infamous terrorism report for 2003. As you may recall, the report was unveiled with great fanfare, and purported to show that terrorist incidents were at a thirty-five year...
Lately, Orcinus has been doing a damn fine job of tearing apart Michelle Malkin. If you don't know who Malkin is, she's part of the wave of attractive female conservatives that the RNC.
Many smart people understand that tarriffs and subsidies are not good policy. They're corporate subsidies, and while they protect some jobs sometimes, there are much better and more efficient ways.
Check out this interesting piece by Michael Penn over at Juan Cole. Penn is concerned about the increasing willingness of Japan's government to use force, and about the increasing independence of the Self-Defense Forces. The fact that all of this is clearly contrary to Japan’s Constitution...
It's difficult to find an issue so clear-cut that The Nation and eventheliberal New Republic agree, but both have great reviews of Sam Huntington's new book, People Who Aren't White Christians Will Destroy America..