Author: Damir Marusic
By Damir Marusic • Mar 24,2009

If the Left loves it…

…it has to be good, right Chris? That elements of the Left are rediscovering their taste for state-building should come as a surprise to no one. That the Left shares...

By Damir Marusic • Mar 20,2009

Turning Back the Clock

Matt gets it exactly right: A substantial swathe of policy elites, starting with Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke and George Bush and now evidently including Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers...

By Damir Marusic • Mar 18,2009

The Lonely Crowd, Revisited

Up on the main page, we’ve got a monster of an article about David Riesman’s largely forgotten masterwork of sociology, The Lonely Crowd. You hear echoes of the book every...

By Damir Marusic • Mar 18,2009

Prepare for the Inevitable

Drezner: Pragmatically, I seriously doubt that the United States can offer anything to get Tehran to halt its nuclear program.  This leads to one of two possible decisions:  pre-emptive action...

By Damir Marusic • Mar 17,2009

Of Interests

Christian Brose on national interests (via a critique of Zakaria’s latest): The real sticking point is how a Syria or a Russia defines some of its “interests.” Damascus’s desire to...

By Damir Marusic • Mar 16,2009

Saakashvili’s Masseuse

Is this a hoax? Because if it’s not, I’m at a loss for words. This is Mikheil Saakashvili’s masseuse, posing with the president: She’s a real piece of work, this...