September 2009
6 posts
“In stories, those who look back — Lot’s wife, Orpheus and Eurydice — are lost....”
– Tim Kreider
Iran: The Day After
Could someone please give a reason why an attack on Israel would be in Iran’s long-term interest? Because there really doesn’t seem to be one.
The anti-semetic rhetoric, the bellicose posturing, the internal surpression complimented by rape and torture—all of these elements have been essential in Ahmadinejad’s attempt to become a global political player. And people (like Bret...
Congress and the Commons
One of the most admirable elements of British democracy is its incessent open-airing of thoughts, requests, and complaints. But Andrew Sullivan makes an essential point—in light of Joe Wilson’s interruption of Obama’s joint session—on the limits of such exchanges within this kind of legislative body:
[O]ne thing you are not allowed to shout in the Commons is that another speaker is a...
“Hyperbole is a bipartisan indulgence.”
– Josh Marshall