Wu-Tang blogging would actually be a welcome addition.

Posted at May 12, 2008 2:25 PM in response to Introductions

sorry, fixed

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:35 AM in response to Today's Recommended Reader Blogs

Pipes, naturally, had a hand in this tragic piece of buffoonery as well.

Posted at May 1, 2008 4:22 PM in response to Hatemonger Daniel Pipes: Forget Rev. Wright, Obama is a Muslim!

Great point, I think the argument against present-day conservatism has to account for the move from a liberal world order, at least intended to be centered supranationally, to regressive nation-states (ok, mainly just us) making aggressive imperial interventions, not least in order to bolster a weakened state by imagining and embellishing threats from abroad.

Posted at April 25, 2008 10:31 AM in response to What's The Big Idea?

I should have finished reading before posting the first time, but anyway, I think it's wrong to think that anything is set in stone, at least in the realm of politics. The impression that certain foreign policy discourses represent the only possible set of alternatives is, I think, the product of an increasingly powerful and increasingly short-sighted and closed-minded elite, the representatives of which do their very best to give the impression that the meager set of options endorsed by themselves and their cohorts are, indeed, set in stone. That said, our political system and media structures are anything but conducive to substantial change on the level of these discourses, especially foreign policy, in which it is our wont to instinctively demonize aliens perceived as threatening, which in many cases limits the debate even further, to one between "moderate" and extreme degrees of violence.

Posted at April 24, 2008 8:18 PM in response to Do Americans believe in change?

I think Dan K's got it about right, I'm afraid.

Posted at April 24, 2008 8:14 PM in response to Do Americans believe in change?

Thanks very much for this post. Obviously Penn's untimely brokering in Colombia is going to get a ton of attention, but that only distracts from the issues which make Penn's involvement problematic in the first place.

Posted at April 8, 2008 6:29 PM in response to Death Squads, Trade and Democracy in Columbia vs. Venezuela