I have already written with great approval of Anne Applebaum’s recent article for the Atlantic, History Will Judge the Complicit, while snickering at Ramesh Ponnuru’s anguished protest—for surely the dude protested too much—that he was totally not—repeat not—“complicit”. He’s just friends with people who, it so happens, are complicit”.1 Which is like a totally different…
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Alan Greenspan: More Mush from the Wimp
Alan Greenspan, 94 years young and still a pain in the ass, has some words of, well, they’re definitely, you know, words! Here are some of them: China’s current success is happening at a time when the United States sometimes looks as if it has lost its way. America’s politics have taken a populist turn….
“Free Speech” letter bad because it was signed by people who should not be allowed to speak, critics say
That’s the basic takeaway from a recent piece, “The Harper’s ‘Letter,’ cancel culture and the summer that drove a lot of smart people mad”, by Sarah Ellison and Elahe Izadi that appeared in the Washington Post yesterday. Ellison and Izadi naturally corralled a variety of talking heads, including, rather curiously, aging paleo-lib Robert Reich,1 who…
The Silence of the “Right” is Deafening. And Contemptible.
Recently, President Donald Trump was asked to comment on the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell for charges of procuring underage women for notorious sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein back in the 1990s and, more recently, in 2017, for perjuring herself when testifying about the matter. Quoth1 the Donald I just wish her well, frankly. I’ve met her…
Gregg Easterbrook, thou shouldst have been alive at this hour! Oh, wait, you are!
Damn straight he is, alive and kicking at the Atlantic, with an excellent article, “Smart Weapons Need to Be Smarter”, which I’ll discuss/amplify in the Afterwords, but for now what I want to talk about is some beautiful demolition work Gregg performed on racist/fascist television back in 2018, describing the unbridled power worship that was…
I should grow the hell up, Daniel Drezner? I think maybe YOU should grow the hell up!
Yeah, I got Daniel Drezner—“Obfuscatin’ Dan”, I like to call him—on my mind, on my mind. I got Daniel Drezner on my mind. Again! I just got finished praising ole Obfuscatin’ Dan to the skies in a recent post for his recent post at Reason, “There Is No China Crisis”, calling it “absolute gold”. As…
What would Ronald Reagan do?
Daniel Drezner, who seems to be my favorite straw man/straight man, and maybe even tin man, has a long post up at Reason, “There Is No China Crisis”, which is absolutely gold. As Dan points out, in a thoroughly researched and most convincing manner, the very many sins and crimes of the Chinese government doesn’t…
Shorter Trump Administration: “F*ck yeah we’re getting the f*ck out of Afghanistan! Pronto! We’re raring to go!
What if we gave a retreat and nobody noticed? That seems to be the situation in Afghanistan, where Secretary of State Michael Pompeo recently made a flying visit to tell the locals to shape the fuck up before Uncle Sam got pissed, or as the Washington Post put it: “U.S. vows to cut $1 billion…
Neocons suffering withdrawal symptoms in Afghanistan
There are about 13,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Now that number is coming down to about 8,600. Yet from the growls n’ howls emitted by unrepentant neocons like Thomas Joscelyn of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, writing in the anti-Trump Dispatch—“No Deal Is Better Than a Bad Deal”—and Iranian-born Shay Khatiri, writing in…
New socialist strategy at the New York Times: We will BORE you! To death!
That seems to be the plan at the “Business” section, no less, of the New York Times, or perhaps it should be the New Woke Times. “What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About the Media” is the latest and greatest from former BuzzFeed dude and now NYT “Media Equation” dude Ben Smith, who loudly champions everybody’s…