By • 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 • 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 • Mar 17,2009

Quotation of the day

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...

By • Mar 17,2009

Of non-interests

As dull as it may be to see agreement around this blog, I think Damir gets it largely right in his response to Christian Brose over at Foreign Policy. I’m...

By • 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...