I very rarely watch politics on television. But visiting my parents, they had Biden’s Afghanistan speech on so I watched it. It’s a terrible situation. But it was a great speech. Simply pu
The Taliban have apparently now entered Kabul. We can hope for the best, but it seems more likely than not that we are looking at a humanitarian crisis across multiple dimensions: atrocities committed
The story of Afghanistan is just so, so, so awful. I support Biden’s withdrawal of American troops from the nation because what else are you really going to do? But it’s just an awful situ
… or at least as a one-sided Cold War, with the leader of the other side focused on his dreams of a Moscow hotel and hoping for another electoral assist. If you haven’t seen it yet, you sh
I told you all about my essay on alien sexuality in fiction appearing in the debut issue of a new feminist punk-rock magazine a few weeks ago. This is the second of my previews of this issue of VENUSz
Twitter compatriot and fellow foreign policy female Sarah Shoker was kind enough to join in to my discussion of civilian casualties from American airstrikes. Sarah is a doctoral candidate in the Depa
“…a lovely, bloodless, corpseless war, just the sort the politicians love.” David Hackworth (1) If images of war set the tone for public support, then the best images are the ones th
Cass Sunstein is right once again. The West brings nothing but gifts wherever it goes, totally eliminating any claims from those nations for justice. And what nation has received more of these gifts t