Damn straight he does! I’ve often been awfully hard on Dan, but, well, when Dan changes, I change too, and Dan has, in my opinion, served up a real stunner, bouncing off a recent piece by Paul Krugman, The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana, something I did too, but Dan and I bounce differently,…
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F*ck yeah I’m a Wikipedia-surfin’ Kissinger wannabe! Ugottaproblemwitdat?
My old buddy/bête noir Dan Drezner brings me this message, Are "Wikipedia-Surfing Kissinger Wannabes" Killing the Political Risk Field?, jumping off a fulminatin’ post by one Tina Fordham, a serious, totally non-amateur political risk chick who now runs her own company, Fordham Global Foresight. Writing in the Financial Times, Tina ripped a new one for…
Alan Vanneman is very disappointed in Paul Krugman
Fuck yeah, I am. The source of my disappointment is Paul’s latest, Why America Is Getting Tough on Trade, the very title an irritant for the homage it pays to the meme that “getting tough” is always a good idea. Paul’s “nut graph” (I think that’s what it is) reads as follows: This is a…
OK, this is REALLY bad news: I won’t have Dan Drezner to kick around any more!
Yes, it’s true. The Washington Post, in its infinite wisdom and general gutlessness—though I’m sure “pussy-whipped” is far too strong a term—has decided that diversity trumps quality, and Dan, as he reports in his last post, Goodbye, farewell and adieu to Spoiler Alerts, is being eased out, for the greater good—though, frankly, I’m not sure…
War! What is it good for? Circulation!
Oh, yeah. There is nothing like a war—in particular, a good guys versus bad guys war—to pump up the circulation, to attract eyeballs—to cable talk shows, network news (OK, I haven’t actually seen one since, well, 2001, but I’m assured they still exist), websites, podcasts, videocasts, etc., etc. etc. I’m told they even have the…
Dan Drezner, last seen regressin’ to the mean like a motherf*cker
O rare Dan Drezner!1 Oy vey, Dan Drezner! Just last week I was falling all over myself with praise for Dan’s all too acute post The war in Ukraine is going badly for everyone, which Dan then followed up with another depressingly acute corker, What is the plan behind sanctioning Russia?, pointing out that the…
Moral, moral, who’s got a moral? Well, Daniel Drezner has one, and I think it’s depressingly accurate.
I so often disagree with Dan that I sometimes try to apologize for it, but his recent post, The war in Ukraine is going badly for everyone, is depressingly spot on. Dan ends his incisive piece with the following grim paragraphs: We have entered a new Cold War, which is not something I say lightly….
Daniel Drezner, struggling all too unsuccessfully to keep his peers from making absolute fools of themselves
I have beaten on foreign policy expert Dan Drezner so extensively that I feel a little giddy to “find myself” praising him as a film critic—a field in which I myself sometimes claim some level of expertise. (Go here, or here, or here for more.) It is Dan’s particular, self-chosen mission, so I gather, to…
Dan and Jack refuted; Kagan expanded
Are Dan Drezner and Jack Shafer Brothers of the Asp? Because they certainly are Queens of Denial. Both Dan How scared should we be about 2024? and Jack Why the Fear of Trump May Be Overblown cast a cold eye if not cold water on Robert Kagan’s widely discussed and damn well verging on magisterial…
Dan Drezner does my job for me. And does it better! Sometimes!
Yeah, that’s right. “Terrible Dan Drezner”, as I often call him—or, sometimes, illiterate Daniel Drezner—has been doing my job—bashing “the Blob” on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and trashing the hawks/neocons on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Okay, neither my nor Dan’s schedule has been that tight, but, still, he has been working hard. One of my principal…