Where wars DO come from: "It is not civilizations that promote clashes. They occur when old-fashioned leaders look for old-fashioned ways to solve problems by rousing their people to armed confrontation." --Kenichi Ohmae, The End Of The Nation State, (New York: The...
Prospect of Putin Presidency Gives Pundit the Vapors
I read a lot of opinion pieces so that you don’t have to. Some are good enough to make our Viewpoints section. Some are… special: [P]olitical events in Russia will become more important in the coming years, and Americans should prepare for the leverage Russia will...
Why Are People Grudgeful?
Timothy P. Carney weighs in on the "Cato purge": [Brink] Lindsey will be portrayed as a martyr, excommunicated for his heresies from the Right's dogma. In this role, he joins neoconservative writer David Frum, who was driven from the American Enterprise Institute...
Binge and Purge
In another one of those Washington insider stories every Serious Person is required to care about, Brink Lindsey and Will Wilkinson, two noted "liberaltarians," have allegedly been "purged" from the Cato Institute (that's Dave Weigel's theory, anyway, so take it for...
YouTube of Iran Debate
Below is the 2 1/2 hour entirety of that Iran debate at UCR on April 1, 2010. Featured speaker was Reese Erlich. Panelists were Erlich, Larry Greenfield, Christopher Records and myself. The host was Louis Vandenberg. Thanks to Joe Briggs for putting this on his...
All the Wrong Reasons
There's a lot to ponder in this open letter to Barack Obama from Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, et al., but I'll stick to this part: We have to cherish and protect the multitude of educational, professional, and other networks and friendships that underpin our friendship...
There Are Some Lines You Just Don’t Cross
Remember Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party who made a big splash four years ago when he began raving about the wonders of the Bush Doctrine? Probably not, to the relief of many a neocon. He was an embarrassing ally for the warbots...
