By • Jan 13,2009

The Freaky Friday hypothesis

I see that Ross and Megan are revisiting Stephen Walt’s counterfactual history of the Israel-Palestine situation — the one Brose put paid to already. For those who thought such “What...

By • Jan 13,2009

Weird Science

I love how Andrew Sullivan calls this post by Will Saletan a “fisking” of a L’Osservatore Romano article about the pill and the possible effects of oestrogen pollution. All Saletan...

By • Jan 13,2009

Was “Black Hawk Down” a war crime?

An American war crime, that is. 800 Somali civilians dead compared to 18 American soldiers. Jeffrey Goldberg asks Mark Bowden whether or not the Americans committed a war crime. Bowden’s...

By • Jan 13,2009

Nuclear sticker shock

The U.S. budget for nuclear programs shows misplaced priorities, colleagues say. We’re spending at least $52.4 billion a year on our nuclear budget, and only a tiny fraction of it...

By • Jan 12,2009

Huh

Posted without comment because I’m hard at work at my day job. Apparently, Hamas might be cracking: Sharp differences emerged at a meeting in Cairo yesterday between two Hamas representatives...

By • Jan 12,2009

The Other F-Word

My animus against folks is of about a decade-and-a-half’s standing–roughly coinciding with the present extent of my adult life. As a youngster, growing up in exurban intramillennial central Florida, I...