Author: Will

The Sound of Settling

A few days ago, Jamelle took a shot at “The Office”: It is actively painful to watch clueless mediocrities trudge through their jobs animated by little more than their mutual disdain and acrimony.  And...

Sweet, sweet nostalgia

Ever lamented J-Kwon’s lack of musical staying power or the inexplicably short career of S Club Seven? Billboard’s list of the decade’s most popular one-hit wonders may not put either act back on the...

Speaking of dirty hands

Stephen Walt tallies the human cost of US interventionism in the Middle East. Some people will inevitably misinterpret this as a strained argument for moral equivalence, but read the whole, caveat-laden post before you...

Scrambled

I was going to write a longer post on this, but one interesting consequence of Obama’s decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan (a decision I support, however tentatively) is the ad hoc redrawing...

Common Sense

Damon Linker on appeals to common sense in American politics is worth reading, even if he overlooks the fact that like all rhetorical tropes, celebrating the intuition of the American people is a thoroughly...

For The Record

Jonah Goldberg (among others) seems offended by the fact that Obama blames the situation in Afghanistan on his predecessor. Blaming Bush may be evergreen for the Democrats, but in this case, it happens to...