I recommend Br. Brafford’s post on non-foundationalism for the layman, but I find his treatment of Thomas...
Chris Dierkes
Chris Dierkes (aka CJ Smith). 29 years old, happily married, adroit purveyor and voracious student of all kinds of information, theories, methods of inquiry, and forms of practice. Studying to be a priest in the Anglican Church in Canada. Main interests: military theory, diplomacy, foreign affairs, medieval history, religion & politics (esp. Islam and Christianity), and political grand bargains of all shapes and sizes.
“I’d rather dip my jewels in honey and go on a bear watch.” –Shawn Spencer, Psych Season...
As the League’s resident ordained clergyman to be, I read with piqued interest Br. Jason’s take on...
Stephen Lee Myers in the New York Times: Defying a sustained barrage of mortars and rockets in...
Br. Erik (as the League’s Arizonan) is probably in a better position to assess this, but why...
I see Br. Matthew has beaten me to the punch* on this one, but Mitt Romney is not dropping...
Richard Grenell takes to the e-pages of HuffingtonPost to say the following: One year later Obama has...
Scott recently raised some skepticism about the potential impact of the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar,...
What must it be like to be Rick Santorum…in what universe does this guy think he can...
As The League of Ordinary Gentlemen’s 2010 Winter Olympics Special Correspondent, some early observations: 1. It’s pretty...
h/t to my boy Drew Raley for dropping this knowledge on me.
US Marines along with Afghan forces have begun what is to date the largest offensive since the...
Dani Rodrik on the Chinese trade imbalance vice grip: So we are left, it seems, with two...
Not much to add to this one, except to say that it gives us an amazing window...
Anne Laurie at Balloon Juice, in a longish (and at points very interesting) post making a number...
With today’s launch of the Apple iPad, this old MadTV sketch takes on a new meaning. Warning:...
The interspheres have been aglow with the leaking of a planned spending freeze proposal by the Obama...
From Simon Shuster, reporting for Time: Then, on Jan. 19, three weeks into the dispute, Kazakhstan stepped...
From Evgeny Morozov (at Foreign Policy), commenting on Sec. Clinton’s recent speech on the Internets. Dude hits...
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, writing in Foreign Policy: In this, Obama was following two decades of...
