We’re going to take a 5 day sabbatical to read and the like (Andrew Sullivan gave us the idea earlier on his blog). We’ll continue to check comments. Should something truly compelling break out we won’t be far away.
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Was It The Constitution That Failed Us?
The so-called Critical School of Constitutional Theory from several decades ago (perhaps best summed up by then-Georgetown Law Professor Mark Tushnet over the years (now at Harvard and part of Jack Balkin’s blog)) is enjoying a revival. Almost entirely because of the Warlord, his regime and the Judiciary and Congress’ failure to assert themselves as [...]
Death Of An Ambassador – The U.S. In A Ring Of Fire
Ambassador Chris Stevens and three colleagues’ deaths in Libya and Egyptians storming embassy walls underscore the Arab Spring was always the Arab Decade. Both events also should give further pause to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) sentimentalists blithely calling for military action against Assad. Focus On Each Country And Its Politics Contrary to many media [...]
The U.N., American Power and Fareed Zakaria
One interesting debate with implications for post 2008 is already occurring. Many of you, Dear Reader, may have already been following it. This one centers on the proper role of American power, particularly under the U.N. Not a new subject on its face — controversy predates floridation, ‘black helicopters’ and Kofi Annan. The current impetus [...]
Rightist Collective Narcissism And Why Obama’s Own Fantasy Of Rational Dialogue Is Doomed
(N.B.: this originally was posted in the comments section but upon reflection think it deserves its own post. No worries, no effort to impersonate Krauthammer or a certain Senate Majority Leader with the deliberately stylized prose. Just some observations). Narcissism is an occupational hazard for political leaders. You have to have an outsized ambition and [...]
Soros on Zakaria’s show today makes good sense with his Obama critiques.