Hat tip to Br. Will who sent me this Tom Ricks post at Foreign Policy on how...
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 Vladimir Putin congratulating President Obama on scrapping (the rather nutty) missile defense system, I think it’s...
David Frum is Dickensian: the best and worst of Republican thinkers. Assuming there are any left. His...
Not that I/you should expect much in the way of logical rigor from Glenn Beck, but is...
Jon Chait’s article on Ayn Rand is getting some play here at the League. Will’s response here,...
Fouad Ajami uses the anniversary of the attacks on NYC and Washington DC as a launching pad...
President Obama’s two biggest problems politically are 1. a frankly crazy and irresponsible minority GOP party (with...
For some reason I can’t get this video of Bob Wright to embed, so I’ll just link...
Uh oh. Hadn’t seen this before, but Lawrence O’Donnell just shoots down reconciliation as the way to...
Jamelle makes some persuasive points in this post on Afghanistan–arguing that the administration and its supporters have...
Picking back up the thread of our quadrilogue on ideological dexterity, I’d like to start with this...
Here in Vancouver we have a lot of city skunks as they have adapted to garbage can/neighborhood...
As of today I am no longer residing in Canada in what the US (and the book...
Spoiler Alert: Not likely. Dr. Andrew Enterline and Joseph Magagnoli (a grad student of Enterline’s) have co-written...
Upon learning that Noel Gallagher has quit Oasis you’re probably asking the same question I am: Oasis...
(H/t John Robb for turning me on to this). As a brief followup to what I wrote...
Br. Mark last week crafted an excellent post criticizing his own political views which generated some interesting...
The status update of The Vancouver Public Library’s copy of Jacques Derrida’s On Grammatology reads: Trace. Beyond...
Freddie posted a quotation from Gregg Easterbrook (whose writing I often find refreshingly counter-intuitive) about the success...
