By • Aug 19,2008

Why Does She Bother?

Anne Applebaum’s latest Slate column on Russia comes with a may-jor caveat: the word superficial is worth repeating here […]. As in, Applebaum concedes that her whole column is strung...

By • Aug 19,2008

Postmodern Toughness

Robert Kagan has a great, long article in The Weekly Standard about how wrong Fukuyama was and how right the other guys (i.e. himself) were about the end of history...

By • Aug 19,2008

Non-Sense

Thru Sonny, Jamie Kirchick reminds me why Bush’s infamous size-up of Putin was such a load of bollocks: I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be...

By • Aug 19,2008

When Private Goes Public

Camille Paglia, I am noticing slightly belatedly, turned in a pitch-perfect expression of the problem with the ‘let sleeping adulterers lie’ meme in post-Clintonian political commentary: As a Democrat who...

By • Aug 19,2008

Video of the Day

The Film Drunkard posted this awesome animated short. It’s long, but neat. Give it a watch: