From The New York Times: With Democrats reeling from the Republican victory in the Massachusetts special Senate...
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.
With all the myriad commentary flying around about about the meaning of Scott Brown’s victory, it would...
Br. Erik writes an interesting riposte to Br. Poulos re: The Tea Partiers. Erik’s post is here,...
Paul Krugman’s op-ed (for today) begins: Lately many people have been second-guessing the Obama administration’s political strategy....
Following up on ED’s earlier post, here’s a smart observation from Derek Thompson at The Atlantic on...
David Rothkopf, in what I (charitably) assume is supposed to be a political self-confession (complete with self-flagellation)...
Goes to The “Unauthorized” Documentary of Matthew Gray Gubler. Gubler is best known as Dr. Reid, the...
If you aren’t watching the Cardinals-Packers, you are missing one of the greatest playoff football games in...
For those in the Western Christian Liturgical Calendar….Happy Epiphany. The Feast remembers The Wise Guys Men who...
The New York Times has a preview of its upcoming magazine featuring Peter Barker’s article on counter-terrorism...
YES!!!! Buckeyes played their greatest game since they won the National Championship in 2003 (maybe even better)....
I’m live-tweeting OSU-Oregon on my twitter account. twitter.com/cdierkes
Marc Lynch, writing about the (non)coverage in the Arab press of the failed Detroit airplane bombing and...
I’ve been largely out of the loop for the last week, so there’s quite a bit to...
I don’t always (often?) agree with Paul Krugman, but his column today hits the hammer on the...
Time has a piece today on climate change that discusses a small atoll called Ifalik in Micronesia. ...
Florida QB Tim Tebow (in)famously often wears eye strips with Biblical phrases on them during every game. ...
Here’s an interesting back and forth from the combox to ED’s post on climate change. (Found in...
Scott and I discussed the military and political side of it, here. By happenstance, today my Gmail...
What with it being The Office and War on Christmas week here at The League, I thought...
