Sorry, faithful Duck readers, for the radio silence – I’ve been traveling for much of the last month and then – ugh – just started teaching a daily undergrad class. I promise – real blog posts are coming! In the meantime, I wanted to fill you in on some information...
One nice thing about a status-quo election: it doesn't leave international-affairs experts with a great deal to prognosticate on. It will be interesting to see if the administration does, indeed,...
I've had it. Recently I was asked to review a book that will not be named for a journal that will not be mentioned. It was by an author with a pretty good reputation with an excellent press on a...
A while back I started reading The Fat Tail, a book about political risk by Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer (who also pens The Call for Foreign Policy) and Preston Keat, but couldn't really get into it....
Andrew Sullivan Conor Friedersdorf thinks that Mark Levin "offers a serious response" to Peter Berkowitz's criticisms of his recent book. I disagree.Here's Berkowitz:Indeed, one could scarcely devise a better example of the imprudence that Burke dedicated his Reflections on the Revolution in France to exposing and combating than Levin's direct appeal to abstract notions of natural right to justify a radical reversal of today's commonly held convictions about the federal government's basic responsibilities.Levin's response?Edmund Burke, who Berkowitz misunderstands and, therefore, wrongly...