From a man who knew his business, James Matheson of Jardine, Matheson & Co. — one of the original opium runners and hence founders of Hong Kong: “The Gazelle was...
I couldn’t have cared less when sinister revelations about Günter Grass surfaced a few years ago, but this is a bit queasy-making.
Daniel Larison has a characteristically insightful and thoughtful post up about the rush to double standards that the strong showing of Yisrael Beiteinu is provoking in people. Contra Greenwald, he...
Chris Brose, reporting on/from the Munich security conference, writes a long post on Afghanistan. This part caught my eye: What I heard again and again is that we may have...
The Times has a grisly must-read today about Dr. Aribert Heim, an infamous Nazi war criminal who performed unspeakable experiments on Jewish prisoners and committed atrocities beyond any sane man’s...
The Tanenhaus reactions are coming in fast and furious. Here‘s Damon Linker. Here‘s a certain Dr. Russell Arben Fox, someone I’ve never read before, and someone I’ll be adding to...
