Commentary - America's Future

By Damir Marusic • Mar 04,2009

Your Afternoon Friedman (Thomas) [bashing edition]

At least two of the Davids on this blog and I are big fans of Matt Taibbi’s legendary shellacking of Tom Friedman on the occasion of the publication of his...

By Damir Marusic • Mar 03,2009

Your Morning Strauss (Leo)

I’ve been re-reading my Locke recently, and have been struck at just how darned pleasant it makes things to assume that man is naturally born free, and that this natural...

By David Polansky • Mar 03,2009

Machiavelli on our financial elites

…one sees that great men are always the same in every fortune; and if it varies — now by exalting them, now by crushing them — they do not vary...

By David Adesnik • Mar 03,2009

A letter from Sean Hannity

Fundraising letters are always great material for blog posts. Often because they say the craziest things to get you riled up and open your wallet. But this one was a...

By David Polansky • Mar 03,2009

Honey, I need to know if this thing we have is bipolar or multipolar

Drawn over to Stephen Walt’s Foreign Policy blog by the latest contretemps over the Freeman appointment, I noticed this previous post entitled "IR theory for lovers: a Valentine’s guide ."...

By David Donadio • Mar 03,2009

How to trivialize everything

Food magazines are scaling back the recipes they’re recommending to more manageable budgets, reports the New York Times, in view of, you know, the excruciating disembowelment of the economy: After...