(Politics) Mud and Allergies in the Arab Spring
I briefly take stock at some recent developments in the “Arab Spring” and the way they’re being misappropriated for shallow political use in the West.
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(Politics) Reappraising Obama’s Foreign Policy, Part II: Electric Boogaloo
You can dig on Part I of this series here, in which I go through some of the recent developments …
(Politics) Reappraising Obama’s Foreign Policy: Part I
Barack Obama isn’t easy to explain. At least, his over-arching ideology and policies aren’t. Perhaps he wants it that way …
(Politics) How Do You Solve a Problem Like Qaddafi?
***Update: as of this morning, Financial Times is reporting that the Arab League intends to approve a potential UN-backed no …
(Politics) Is the Anglo-American Relationship Losing Its “Specialness”?
I first considered writing a post about the Anglo-American “Special Relationship” several months ago, but put it off because I …
(Current Events) Russian Roulette; British Bulldog
Ok, so one of those games is far more lethal. You get the point. It looks like I was right …
(Current Events) The Death of American Spaceflight
Space…The Final Frontier (Patrick Stewart voice) Let’s start out with a paradigm shift here. Imagine you’re an alien. You know …
(Politics) Is Washington Broken?
My original idea here was for three separate columns on these topics, but for purposes of timing and because there’s …
