Every once in a while the formerly libertarian Cato Institute lets loose with an analysis of the shape of libertarianism in the form of a voter profile: they did this some years back, you'll recall,with a study (based on a Pew Center survey) that showed a considerable...
It's hilarious -- that's the word for The War of the Words: The 101s Fighting Keyboarders, a satiric take-down of the "war-bloggers," who earned a place in military history by leading a heroic assault on the third-rate, broken down army of Saddam Hussein from the...
A new poll is out: "According to a poll by Princeton Survey Research Associates released by Newsweek. 61 per cent of respondents believe the Bush administration misinterpreted or misanalyzed the intelligence reports they said indicated Iraq had banned weapons. In...
Is this a trend, or what? First, the Polish embassy in New York cancels a scheduled talk by Tony Judt in response to pressure from Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Judt's sin? He defended scholars John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, whose...
The War Party did more to enlist journalists in the cause of invading Iraq than deploying Judith Miller. Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, reveals a top secret meeting chaired by Paul Wolfowitz, on November 29, 2001, attended by thinktank wonks, government...
Not since "Dewey Defeats Truman" adorned the front page of the Chicago Tribune has a headline-writer gotten it more wrong: "N. Korea appears to back down on threat"Â That Associated Press story, posted hours before the North Koreans announced a successful...
Senator John Warner (R-Virginia), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, fresh from a trip to Iraq, on the war: "I assure you, in two or three months, if this thing hasn't come to fruition and if this level of violence is not under control and this...
The poll numbers are in, and it looks like the War Party has its work cut out: "A majority of Americans want the United States to increase diplomatic efforts over Iran's nuclear ambitions, while 70 percent oppose the use of U.S. troops to thwart Iran, according to a...
If you want to know what we are doing in Iraq, at least a partial answer to your question is provided by Editor & Publisher, a recent edition of which reports: "U.S. Army officials are taking a close look at whether women in a Kentucky National Guard unit posed nude...
The London Review of Books put on a panel last Thursday, held at Cooper Union's Great Hall in New York City, with the provocative title "The Israel Lobby: Does it have too much influence on U.S. foreign policy?" Speaking for the affirmative: John J. Mearsheimer, a...
