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And it happened that someone came to speak with reproach about the fact that he had been exiled. But Diogenes replied abruptly, saying: “No, you dense fellow, that is how…

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It may be owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch, but the Times (London) is still able to report in a free way about politics in the United States that is…

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Last winter, making arrangements for a law of armed conflict conference I was putting together with some friends from West Point and Princeton, I had a lunch with one of…

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I have been following with some interest the outcome of the trip that Michael O’Hanlon, Ken Pollack and Anthony Cordesman made to Iraq. It generated an op-ed by O’Hanlon and…

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For the last year, the thinking in many well-informed circles among counterterrorism experts has been that Iraq was an incurable disaster. The internal contradictions and splits within the country were…

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McKenzie Funk, “Cold Rush: The Coming Fight for the Melting North,” Harper’s, Sept. 2007 Over the last couple of years, I’ve found myself up north of the forty-fourth parallel several…

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Over at ABC News, Justin Rood reports that in addition to the leaks from the White House to back Gonzales, from Gonzales and from Minority Leader Boehner, now we have…

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Fredo’s Awesome Baghdad Adventure Alberto Gonzales has been the Bush Administration’s whipping boy for the last half year now. The Administration offers him up with regularity to absorb blows that…

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Hollywood gives us James Bond as the man with a license to kill. However, the Bush Administration has fashioned a pretty broad exemption for security contractors in Iraq. As the…

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The study of law is dirty and mercenary because its ultimate object is money; one studies law neither for delight nor simply for the knowledge of things. Thus a lawyer…

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Matthew Scully has a significant piece in the September Atlantic entitled “Present at the Creation,” which is essentially an accounting of the meteoric rise of Michael Gerson as a print…

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Sometimes inspirational pieces can be found in strange corners. From anthropologist Edgardo Krebs, a powerful tribute published in today’s Washington Post to a Quechua-speaking shaman (though as he teaches us,…

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I have just posted original translations of two poems by the great Silesian Baroque poet Andreas Gryphius. Last week when I put up my translation of Brentano’s Springtime Cry from…

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Human Misery What indeed are men! A dwelling place for grim pains, A ball of false fortune, a will-o’-the-wisp of their times, A stage of bitter fear, set with sharp…

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Where no discipline is enforced in war a state of things results which resembles far more the… religious wars… than the regular wars of modern times. And such a state…

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In the current Economist the usual insightful analysis of American politics. Far better, in fact, than anything I’ve seen from any of the Beltway Bunch. The right has dominated American…

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Last year outgoing French President Jacques Chirac asked the noted French philosopher and writer Régis Debray to take a look at what was transpiring on the West Bank and issue…

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In an interesting interview published in the current issue of Newsweek, Senator Joe Biden responds to a question about possible impeachment actions against major actors in the Bush Administration with…

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The modern journalist, so goes the rant that my colleague Ken Silverstein has perfected, is usually more than a bit too comfortable in his own skin. He frequently understands that…

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I Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. II Only thin smoke without flame…

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In what country in the world have the lawyers, led by a sacked chief justice of the Supreme Court, staged a revolt against the government and won? Where else could…

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Where there is no justice, there is no freedom, and where there is no freedom, there is no justice. And should freedom and justice be for all eternity nothing more…

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President Bush is the most enthusiastic vacationer of any American president. He has racked up some 430 vacation days since coming to office. And today he starts his five-week summer…

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An airplane lands with a hundred liars on board. The city greets them with a handful of flowers, With a smell of naphthalene and sweat, With a wind from the…

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O’Reilly Radar gives us a visual representation of the U.S. Code. Here’s the formula used, as related by the creator of the image, Dan Kaminsky: Take the data . .…

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Jim Cramer is a sort of New York financial media fixture. He’s fast talking, extremely political, a bit full of himself, and often slightly hysterical. Generally he seems to know…

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One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted…

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For the last ten days we have examined Mark Everett Fuller, the judge who presided over the trial of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. The case has now attracted attention…

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