As Osborne Cox, the Princeton-educated CIA spook at the center of Burn After Reading, the veteran John Malkovich perfectly captures the arrogance of a “company” man used to having things...
It’s the patriotic thing to do. Seriously, Senator Biden? Granted, it’s sort of a throwback to JFK’s “ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you...
Here’s some free advice to any males out there: if the subject of Sarah Palin comes up, and there’s a female in the vicinity, do try to look suitably outraged....
Over in (non-Soviet) Russia, trading was suspended yesterday after markets tumbled 17%. Some Russian reportedly said: “It is a situation of total mistrust. The liquidity crisis is being caused by...
This is approximately the only time I’ll be posting anything on macroeconomics, because frankly I’d almost rather be writing about third-wave feminism or something. But yesterday’s news that the Federal...
Andrew J. Bacevich has a characteristically smart piece in the new Atlantic Monthly on the largely internal debate over military tactics fought between what he terms the Crusaders and the...
