With respect to my prior post....In all seriousness, it would not be difficult to do the following:Put up presentations as, say, 10 minute m4a files -- straight audio, audio with slides added by hand, or audio-video derived from lecture-capture applications;Post audio...
APThis is a guest post by Peter S. Henne. Peter is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University. He formerly worked as a national security consultant. His research focuses on terrorism and...
On Facebook, someone familiar to readers of this blog wrote: "As readers of Weber know, there are three forms of legitimate rape: forcible, fraternity, and rational-legal." But enough of that...
One of the questions heard around the mid-tier blogsphere "why doesn't anybody comment anymore?" Answers usually invoke 'big think' claims about the changing ecology and norms of blogging, the...
Statue Outside the Guingtou Battle Museum(Photo: Dan Nexon)Note: this is the second post stemming from my June trip to Taiwan. The first is available here.Seven years ago Bill Petti wrote a piece at the Duck called "US, Taiwan, and the Myth of an Obligation to Defend." Bill eviscerated the claim that the US was legally obligated to defend the island against an attack from the mainland, but concluded by noting that:Many US policymakers have come to see our position on Taiwan as a barometer by which enemies and allies judge US resolve. Over the last 50 years we have coupled our stance on...
Greyfriars Kirkyard (Photo: Dan Nexon) Aleppo reportedly running low on food and water.Australian media: "A US military report, to be formally released tomorrow, contains a recommendation to massively expand America's defence presence in Australia by building a base in Perth for a US aircraft carrier and supporting fleet."The Economist on Mitt Romney: "Like Bush, but without the cosmopolitan flair." Well, at least they didn't recycle the "wimp" line, like a certain US weekly experiencing late-stage death-spiral.Meanwhile, Dan Drezner, in a pattern becoming increasingly familiar to his...