sub-Saharan Africa
Now that Conrad Black is no longer in jail, he is free to spread his ideas to the hungry masses. National Review, which is always pining for the glory days of imperialism, has taken Black under its wing, and apparently decided that July 4th was an opportune time for him to pen a piece about the glories of empire. He begins: READ MORE >>
Even the Costa Ricans... and Chinese and Mexicans...
“Even the Costa Ricans have health insurance for all their people.” That was Howard Dean’s old line, when he was talking about all the countries that had universal health care. Today, Dean could also say “Even the Mexicans” or “even the Chinese.” READ MORE >>
The Immediate Question
Wehner For The Win
National Review's John Derbyshire writes, in a post entitled "A Smug Op-ed from George W. Bush": READ MORE >>
The Reactionary
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers By Arundhati Roy (Haymarket Books, 230 pp., $20) READ MORE >>
The Reactionary
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers By Arundhati Roy (Haymarket Books, 230 pp., $20) READ MORE >>
Certified By The (New York) Times
Twice in two years (once in 2007 and a second time in 2008), The New York Times puts its mantle of approval on Tariq Ramadan who almost everybody on the Upper West Side saw as an innocent victim of dictatorship because the Bush administration had barred him, under provisions of the Patriot Act, from entering the United States. After all, how could anything required by something called the Patriot Act be justified at all? READ MORE >>
The End of Hunger?
Famine: A Short History By Cormac Ó Gráda (Princeton University Press, 327 pp., $27.95) READ MORE >>
