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modesty in Afghanistan

Freddie February 11, 2009
I think Reihan is right to be distressed, given his inclinations for Afghanistan, by the perceptible shift...
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A Gay Marriage Solution Whose Time May Soon Be Upon Us

Guest Authors February 11, 2009
by Kyle Moore This may come as a surprise, but I’m not exactly prone to confrontation.  While...
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Sanctions pt. 2

Erik Kain February 10, 2009
h/t | Jamelle
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Economic Interventionism

Erik Kain February 9, 2009
Mark raises an interesting point: Finally, I’d put an end to the concept of economic or diplomatic sanctions...
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I, troll

Freddie February 9, 2009
Alan Jacobs has some thoughts on the virtues and vices of blogging, vis a vis the seemingly...
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Getting Our Priorities in Order

Mark of New Jersey February 9, 2009
Responding to E.D.’s post last week, Roque Nuevo wrote: “the world generally” agrees that national sovereignty, pluralism,...
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Snow in Arizona

Erik Kain February 9, 2009
I think we’re at eight inches so far, with another foot expected today, and Lord knows how...
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Stimulation After (Economic) Climax

Chris Dierkes February 9, 2009
I see Mssr. J. Schwenkler linked to and posted some of a recent Brian Beutler-Megan McArdle Bloggingheads...
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A poem for Sunday

Erik Kain February 8, 2009
The Fall of Rome by W.H. Auden The piers are pummelled by the waves; In a lonely...
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The Humanitarian Empire

Erik Kain February 8, 2009
Scott wonders again whether there isn’t a place for humanitarian intervention, or a sort of anti-imperialist version,...
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Opportunity, Society, and the Role of the State

Erik Kain February 7, 2009
A few thoughts on Freddie’s post below. First, I think $10/hour is a pretty reasonable wage for...
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calling bullshit on bullshit

Freddie February 7, 2009
Andrew links approvingly to another frivolous experiment that seeks to show that bootstrapping rhetoric isn’t dead, and...
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“All I want… to kno-ow! All I want!”

Freddie February 7, 2009
lyrics feature adult language The Misfits, to me, are genius, and I don’t know why they don’t...
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Madrick on Case for Big Gov’t

Chris Dierkes February 6, 2009
I found this an extremely thought provoking Bloggingheads.  I thought some of the League and our readers...
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the grad trap

Freddie February 6, 2009
John Schwenkler has some wise words about the college debt trap. As I said in the comments...
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Intervening into the Unknown/The Unknown Intervening into US

Chris Dierkes February 5, 2009
To recap a bit where we are in this discussion. So I would say Freddie and ED...
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the inevitability dodge

Freddie February 5, 2009
In the comments to ED’s post, Roland Dodds writes “First of all, the ‘meddling’ the United States...
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the democracy fallacy

Erik Kain February 5, 2009
Here’s a line of reasoning I simply can’t follow: The Islamic world is nothing like the Western...
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Unanswered Questions

Erik Kain February 4, 2009
I wanted to draw attention to this post over at William Randolph’s blog.  He has a pretty...
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A Quick Note on A Rigged Game

Dave February 4, 2009
Freddie writes: The more that one side or the other plugs their ears and refuses to compromise,...
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