People from all over the political spectrum hate Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man, with its naïve progressivist-historicism, its post–Cold War /pre–Sept. 11 triumphalism, etc., so imagine my surprise when I started reading it and enjoying it (while of...
FOB (friend of blog) Joanne McNeil points to this article from New Scientist, with the following snippet: People with implicit racial prejudices are left mentally exhausted after interacting with someone from a different race, perhaps because they are trying to quell...
Iraqi blogger Riverbend shares her thoughts on the Pentagon's new hearts and minds strategy: They've been bombing houses in Tikrit and other areas! Unbelievable… I'm so angry it makes me want to break something!!!! What the hell is going on?! What do the Americans...
Question for Andrew Sullivan: If George Soros is himself a raging anti-Semite (I especially like this Joe Farah article--is the "pig" angle some kind of kosher double-entendre?), then why is it anti-Semitic to criticize him?
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/11/20/turkey.blast/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/11/20/britain.bush.blair.presser/
Reader Doug Barrett from Edmonton, Canada, suggests that the 9 cases in Nozick's Tale of the Slave can be expanded upon: 10. They read 'the Tale of the Slave' and they are now aware that you feel you are a slave. "We're sorry you feel that way." they say. "If you want...
To (some of) my lefty friends: this is why I hate the U.N. Oh yeah, don't forget the brutal sanctions against Iraq (child death toll: 350,000-530,000) and the weapons inspections (which, the Bush administration frequently and correctly notes, provided the pretext for...
Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) pens that NATO Needs Iraq. Lantos wants to repeat NATO's "successes" in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Kosovo -- in Iraq. And, according to Lantos, NATO needs an Iraq deployment to keep it relevant. "NATO needs Iraq as much as Iraq needs NATO," says...
Just days after Mark Byron's gorefest, another Instapundit-approved blogger goes berserk. Justin featured this in his column today, but it merits its own blog post. From Healing Iraq (scroll down about 1/3 of the page): I'm going to repeat it again and everyday:...
Seems to me all of the president's problems on this UK trip ("They ask questions over there???") could have been avoided if he had access to news. Now, we all know the president has no time for newspapers, but there must be some way for him to stay informed. Oh, if...
