Category Archives: War

From a New York Times bore-a-thon analysis: In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I just found this, from Tony Judt, in the NYRB: “With our growing income inequities and child poverty; our underperforming schools and disgracefully inadequate health services; our mendacious politicians and crude, partisan media; our suspect voting machines and our gerrymandered … Continue reading → Continue reading →

According to the Washington Post the proposal has been dropped, and replaced by one which would allow suspects to be detained indefinitely, without trial, at the whim of the immigration authorities. According to the official site the amendment passed on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The torture bill referred to in yesterday’s post is still going to congress. One of the Presiden’t lawyers, Alberto Gonzalez, wrote to the Washington Post denying that Bush wanted torture legaised: The president did not propose and does not support … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t normally do this, and perhaps I should, but here’s the week’s wormesye. It matters. Continue reading →

I am reading Emmanuel Todd’s After the Empire, which talks about the increasing fragility of the American hegemony. This isn’t entirely new territory — think of Paul Kennedy — but it’s covered with elegance, insight, and a clear grasp of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Martin Kozloff is a Professor of Education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington; amongst other things, he teaches a course in Classroom management for the mildly handicapped. How would he teach, I wonder, a student who got up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It is possible to make the argument that a Bush victory in the election might in the long run be less disastrous than a Kerry one, simply because it will leave Bush unequivocally responsible for the coming catastrophes for America. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The appearance of activity would be a whole lot easier if I just wrote a script that monitored Juan Cole’s site, and — every time something appeared there — posted a link with a note saying “This demands deep thought. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Daily Mail has decided that we’re finished in Iraq. There is a long dispatch from Max Hastings in Baghdad; and I don’t think any British journalist has better contacts at the top of the Army than Max Hastings. It … Continue reading → Continue reading →