George Packer has been digging through books on Vietnam as to what they may tell us about...
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.
Elinor Ostrom, recent co-winner (along with Oliver Williamson) of the Riksbank Prize in Economics in memory of...
Writing from my mother-in-law’s beautiful home on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia… To all our Canadian...
Video here. [Still having trouble embedding MSNBC, see ps below for more details]. Richard Engel is one...
Br. Nate likes the Tom Carper (D-Del) plan for a state opt-out version of the public option. ...
Our knowledge of any Iranian nuclear bomb, with only a little exaggeration, is reduced to Google maps,...
Noam Levey and Janet Hook writing in the LaTimes today: Reporting from Washington – Despite months of...
Truly excellent must-read over at the Christian Science Monitor on the nature of warfare in the 21st...
“People are defending Roman Polanski because he made good movies 30 years ago?” he said. “Are you...
From Washington Post piece on the continued discussion around the McChyrstal’s strategic troop increase request: But White...
For a short period of time I lived in Chicago. I have a warm place in my...
— Ya gotta dig the thumb picking style on the guitar solos. And of course the flute.
From The Cincinnati Enquirer: Life is too short to sweat the small stuff. So says Paul Paff,...
The Leveretts (Flynt and Hillary Mann) have a NyTimes op-ed out on the Iranian situation in light...
From a profile of Miyuki Hatoyama (wife of new Japanese PM Yukio Hatoyama) in Time by Glen...
From an excellent NyTimes article on the debate between European, American, and Israeli intelligence agencies on the...
Continuing on the theme of Red Toryism, ED writes: It’s true, the free market is a system...
Marc Lynch at Foreign Policy. Read this post.
ED’s post on Philip Blond and his (quixiotic?) brand of Red Toryism is definitely worth the read....
Br. Will is right that scaling down the Afghanistan effort in favor of civilian air strikes, just...
