This is the fifth installment of an eight part series on the Patterson School’s Summer Reading List. Hide and Seek, Charles Duelfer The Accidental Guerrilla, David Kilcullen The Limits of Power, Andrew Bacevich Huang Yasheng, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics Walter Laqueur, The Last Days of Europe In the past, the Patterson School has included some truly […]
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Nineteen, it seems. This story has evidently been making the rounds for a few weeks now, though I somehow managed not to hear about it. For background detail, the place to begin is with Thomas Russell
Gary Haugen and Victor Boutrous have a useful article in the new print version of Foreign Affairs, pointing out that all the human rights standards in the land mean nothing if they’re not transl
This column is a few months old, but it’s a particularly good example of something illustrated by any number of Thomas Friedman columns, or indeed any amount of free-wheeling high-profile punditry. Various aspects of the argument strike me as absurd (the idea that the only really big problem the world had when Friedman was a […]
You may remember, in one of the worst slippery slope arguments ever, school district lawyers objecting to the Supreme Court’s salutary decision in Safford School District v. Redding because it m
Two good posts from the XX factor about the anti-Sotomayor smear campaign. First, Bazelon explores the obvious double standards in the criticisms of Sotomayor’s temperament. (See also here.) Sec
My wife just received a certified letter alerting me to the odd news that I’ve somehow received tenure and promotion to the rank of associate professor. This is great news for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that my deeply conservative political views — which I’ve successfully veiled for the past […]
Lithwick and Savage bring the depressing news about yesterday’s oral argument in the case in which a 13-year-old young woman was strip-searched by school officials because of an entirely uncorro
Jesse and David say most of what needs to be said about Bruce Bartlett’s op-ed, but it’s worth saying more about one specific point. The central problem with Bartlett’s argument is i
We’ve been field-tripping lately at Patterson; this week to Proctor and Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati, last week to Fort Knox. Both trips have, believe it or not, spawned some thoughts that may be of mild interest to those who were planning on staying home on a Friday night, anyway. This week first… Hanging out for […]
Just in time for Confederate Inauguration Day, there was this bit of soul-coughing indignity from some fellow at Redstate last night. Our hero — who answers to the rustic handle of “haysta
Shorter Practically verbatim Ted Stevens: That’s a nice newspaper you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it. Crikey. Stevens appears to believe that he can cut off federal funding f