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Mr. Jones writes an interesting essay, yet he confines himself to strategic questions alone, like the good policy intellectual, who seeks to avoid the ethical question of a protracted bombing campaign, against a country that is engaged in nothing that … Continue reading →

I found this article from Foreign Affairs in a tweet by Glenn Greenwald , a thank you to him. What is very fascinating about this opinion piece is that, for being so brief, it has three people credited with it’s … Continue reading →

Should the zygote be granted the status of a person? This is the burning question of our present age, while millions of human beings,once zygotes themselves, go hungry, have no shelter and whose futures are, by any measure, utterly bleak. … Continue reading →

The United States is a country that has received many blessings, and once upon a time you could assume that Americans would come together to take advantage of them. But you can no longer make that assumption. The country is … Continue reading →

Please read this devastating review of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel. Very worth your time and attention. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/10/real-deng/  

Please join me and a host of your favorite stars and political luminaries in celebration of the American National Security State’s first gay couple, J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson. We will be holding our festivities on the well kept … Continue reading →

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/merchants-of-doubt/?smid=tw-Nytim… If you are at all interested in the further exploration of the technique, the rhetorical subterfuge masquerading as argument, that Mr. Chait and Mr. Krugman have been discussing,although it might seem far of field, read Minding The Law by … Continue reading →

One of my favorite ‘media people’ is Tina Brown. I’ve spent a lot of time catching up, after my escape from the Best Seller List of 1968, and my girl Tina has put her finely manicured hand on the pulse … Continue reading →

I haven’t read a David Brooks column since the Milquetoast Radicals of October 11,2011. It was so much hysterical chatter by a frightened bourgeoise conservative, as he confronts the great unwashed hordes,all very typical of a self-aggradizing public intellectual sounding … Continue reading →

http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745648354 Podcast interview of Professor Held on his book:  http://podularity.com/polity-podcasts/david-held-cosmopolitanism-ideas-and-re…