Sent by a friend, who would rather we blog more on Syria. Or WMD. Or development. Or disease. Or, well, just about anything but.....
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Sent by a friend, who would rather we blog more on Syria. Or WMD. Or development. Or disease. Or, well, just about anything but.....
Happy first day of Fall classes, at least at my university. A question for discussion: Is there any value whatsoever to a live lecture delivered in front of large numbers of students, given that...
In my grad class every semester, I always ask the students if IR is really the best field for studying human security. Undoubtedly, I get some students who respond that political science is the...
Steve Walt asked a great question the other day: Are U.S. Interests Really at Stake in Egypt, Syria, etc...? In posing the question, he cited a recent comment from Brendan Green, a visiting...
Paul Krugman has an op-ed in today's New York Times in which he likens the rise and decline of technology companies to Ibn Khaldun's account of the rise and decline of dynasties: success breeds complacency and soon the barbarians are running the show. This happened, he argues, to Microsoft, which once upon a time dominated the computer industry thanks to network externalities: The odd thing was that nobody seemed to like Microsoft’s products. By all accounts, Apple computers were better than PCs using Windows as their operating system. Yet the vast majority of desktop and laptop computers...
Syria agrees to allow a UN team of experts access to the site of last week's alleged chemical weapons attacks. US government officials says it's too little, too late. The Tunisian opposition is back in the streets and is again calling for the government’s resignation. FP’s James Traub remains optimistic. Saturday was the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The Atlantic examines why it’s so hard to find a copy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech online, and The American Prospect has an excellent piece on the socialist roots of Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, and the original...