bin Laden
What Osama bin Laden's Death Means
A first cut. Sorry if it's nothing earth-shattering. In descending order of importance: READ MORE >>
Post-Post-Imperialism
Is Sudan Next?
As protests inspired by the Egyptian uprising spread throughout the Middle East, there has been a lot of speculation about what government might fall next. Could it be Bahrain? Or Libya? Or Yemen? In fact, one of the governments that might, over the long run, be most vulnerable isn’t really on anyone’s radar at the moment. I am referring to the government of Sudan. READ MORE >>
The Amazing Silence of Barack Obama's Supporters
The ones I'm writing about are the idealists. Those who are stirred to action by the inhumanity of man to man. READ MORE >>
The Facts Fetish
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values By Sam Harris (Free Press, 291 pp., $26.99) READ MORE >>
The Bill O'Reilly Fallacy
High Noon For Climate Skepticism
Mosque Notes
Obama Wants Us To Forget the Lessons of Iraq
Civilian Control? Surely, You Jest.
The principle of civilian control forms the foundation of the American system of civil-military relations, offering assurance that the nation’s very powerful armed forces and its very influential officer corps pose no danger to our democracy. That’s the theory at least, the one that gets printed in civics books and peddled to the plain folk out in Peoria. READ MORE >>
