After reading the first chapter of Mearsheimer and Walt's The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, I can say one thing with absolute certainty: These guys are major-league anti-Semites. What I can't understand is how such ardent neo-Nazis were able to hold their...
Off-message alert! Off-message alert! Glenn Reynolds lets slip that things in Iraq could be much better (if only Jacques Chirac had helped a brother out back in the day). But Glenn... what about all the painted schools? And the purple fingers – the purple fingers,...
Doug Bandow fails to panic over Hugo Chavez's planned purchase of 5,000 rifles.
On Sunday, Glenn Greenwald demolished the pro-surge scam that Michael O'Hanlon and Ken Pollack have been trying to pull for the last couple of weeks. After Greenwald's evisceration of these con men, one would think that the matter was settled, that anyone with a...
Ladies and gentlemen, the Israel Lobby. Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour from huffpost and Vimeo. Via David Weigel.
Over the years our Viewpoints section has featured some interesting essays by artists of various sorts, including Monty Python's Terry Jones and chef-turned-author Anthony Bourdain. One piece I wish we had excerpted was this bit by English musician Robyn Hitchcock...
So there's a running debate in libertarian circles about whether Randy Barnett's a libertarian or not, and it's getting old. This is a superficially free country; Barnett and his buddies can employ any nomenclature they like. Barnett does seem to be true blue on all...
For your delight and diversion, a most entertaining bit of science fiction, one with no relationship whatsoever to reality. (Via Jim Henley.)
I can't watch much more of this vicious stupidity – the only relief I can find is that the biggest a**hole on stage, Joe Biden, has no shot of winning. But he's only the worst by a smidgen. Anyway, if you must have live blogging, David Weigel's doing an entertaining...
Another week, another dreadful column from Anne Applebaum, this time about why we can never ever ever ever leave Iraq. Applebaum, along with Cathy Young and a few others, occupies a weird niche in establishment punditry: as yawn-inducing in her analysis as David...
