March 13, 2010 – 10:11 am
How clever is he? Clever enough to call Republicans “Repugs,” and to say that the only “Jefferson” Republicans like is Jefferson Davis.
Now that’s cleverness. And originality too. It is no surprise that Quiggin blogs for Crooked Timber, where the word “smart” is spelled S-M-U-G on the days when it is not spelled P-R-E-T-E-N-T-I-O-U-S.
February 8, 2010 – 11:16 pm
It is, as Monty Python’s King Arthur would say, a silly place.
December 30, 2009 – 11:04 pm
“In summary, a ‘world without nuclear weapons’ would be a world in which the United States, Russia, Israel, China, and half a dozen or a dozen other countries would have hair-trigger mobilization plans to rebuild nuclear weapons and mobilize or commandeer delivery systems, and would have prepared targets to preempt other nations’ nuclear facilities, all in a high-alert status, with practice drills and secure emergency communications.”
November 18, 2009 – 5:20 pm
The Economist on the Reagan legacy in fighting the Cold War.
November 14, 2009 – 1:32 pm
Barack Obama has dubbed himself thusly.
November 14, 2009 – 12:27 pm
But this footage is deeply moving and compelling, nonetheless:
November 10, 2009 – 1:26 am
There is a tendency for events that were once chaotic, precarious, and ultimately consequential to seem inevitable once they’re chiseled into our tablets. Today, an equally dismissive approach suggests that those events were inevitable. In fact, they were neither.
November 9, 2009 – 10:05 pm
I write about the subject in my latest column for the New Ledger.
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Communism, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, Friedrich Hayek, Germany, Obama Administration, The Fall Of Communism, The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
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November 9, 2009 – 8:13 am
After all his talk of outreach on the global stage, the President’s failure to attend the celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is of a piece with his refusal to use the power of the Presidency to advance political liberties around the world.
October 6, 2009 – 12:26 am
Behold supporting evidence.
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board
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Also tagged Budget Deficit, Dishonesty, Economic Ignorance, economy, Fiscal Policy, health care, Health Care Policy, Health Care Reform, History, Medicare, National Debt, Partisan Hackery, Paul Krugman, Republicans
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October 1, 2009 – 1:37 am
Didn’t something . . . happen around 1980? Can’t quite remember . . . something whose name begins with the letter “S”?
September 26, 2009 – 12:52 pm
Meet Sarkozy the Realist, and Obama the Naïve.
