I'm frankly not sure even what to say to Josh Patashnik's response to my post from earlier today. Essentially, he concedes the merits of the arguments Matt and I made but argues that "it would be comforting to at least see a bit more hand-wringing and...
Tristam Shandy points us to this extraordinarily weak piece of media criticism from walking punchline Pajamas Media. As TS points out, the biggest problem is that it's mostly unfounded speculation..
One need not investigate the methods used in this study to know that they're flawed:Our results suggest that having participants listen to songs by AC/DC in which Brian Johnson served.
...or so Peter Baker would have you believe. That's not quite fair to Baker, but it's not far off, either. Baker allows that slashed budgets and "unforeseen" events have wounded Bush's pro-democracy agenda, but swallows the line that most of the blame for failure at the...
It's time for your weekly installment of Liptak love, wherein I sing the praises of the New York Times' Adam Liptak and his Monday (Times Select-shielded) criminal justice columns. Today,.
In times past, I've described my aversion to start-of-the-semester meetings. Since my banal complaints are permanently archived on the intertubes, I'm not going to rehash them here as I prepare.
Amanda says most of what needs to be said about Michael Skube. But this is a pretty amazing punchline:Not long after I wrote I got a reply: "I didn't put your name into the piece and haven't spent any time on your site. So to that...
I think this sums up Rudy pretty well...
First an update on the stitches (not so happily ever after). They came out today but the gash isn't closed, so I'm steri-stripped for the next week. Hopefully they will.
Setting aside the question of whether or not a "clerisy" exists in economic or environmental policy (although I've heard from a lot of people who believe that just such a "clerisy" exists in both foreign and domestic economic policy, and that it plays precisely the same...
Shorter Verbatim Michael Ledeen: "Washington diplomats have steadfastly refused to see the Iranian regime for what it is: a relentless enemy that seeks to dominate or destroy us." Um, I'd.
I'll have a couple of longer comments on the "foreign policy community" scrum later this week, but right now I wanted to highlight this from Drezner, on Greenwald:During the latest.