In addition to the comments on my original post, there’s an interesting discussion brewing over at Upturned Earth; Matt Thompson dissents here and the comments are worth reading.
Over at John Schwenkler’s joint, J.L. Wall addresses the problem of the Geneva Conventions as they apply to enemy combatants. John and I went back and forth on this earlier...
Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski advise Barack Obama to reinvigorate the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. I agree with their analysis, and in principle with their prescriptions, but what good does it...
Following up on Donadio’s post, that oped follows an all-too-common model: take a piece you or someone else (in this case, Brzezinski) has written a number of times before. Insert...
As the token humanities grad student here, I feel it’s my duty to post the link to a video of this conversation between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky… then again,...
Bush’s penchant for expanding executive power shows that he misunderstood the most important aspect of governmental institutions: They should be one-size-fits all. Officeholders set precedents that will be utilized not...
