Monthly Archives: August 2002

expertise

Posted on August 9, 2002 by andrewb

There are three stages of journalistic understanding. You don’t understand the subject, but are full of infectious enthusiasm. That’s when you write the “Cure for cancer” stories You could pass an exam in the subject, and it shows. You could … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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by the right, fall out!

Posted on August 9, 2002 by andrewb

An interesting split is developing in the British right-wing press. The Times and the Telegraph are in favour of war, of course. The Telegraph is being thoroughly consistent. It will always argue for the world to be run by a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Smart nice people

Posted on August 7, 2002 by andrewb

Acting dumb and nasty: Nick Denton (moreover, First Tuesday, yes, that Nick Denton) argues that we should invade Iraq to crush Arab millennial dreams. Continue reading →

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The Athens of the West

Posted on August 5, 2002 by andrewb

One of the most absurd of all present day pundits is Victor Davis Hanson, whose theory that there is such a thing as a Western Way of War, which descends from Pericles to Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf, isn’t quite completely bullshit. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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parasangs

Posted on August 3, 2002 by andrewb

to march still: the journey to the end of the worm extends like Xenophon’s anabasis. But today I reached the place where the first maps run out, and the end should have been. Onwards. Continue reading →

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prophecy

Posted on August 2, 2002 by andrewb

Lo, is it not written? And will it not come to pass as was foretold, yea, even in Babylon? Continue reading →

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Let’s drop the big one.

Posted on August 2, 2002 by andrewb

There is one thing I simply don’t understand about the war party. Continue reading →

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