May 2010 – The Scholar's Stage

We Laugh Because It is True (But Perhaps We Should Be Crying Too)

31 May, 2010Culture, Humor, Oligarchy, To My Countrymen

Once again, The Onion proves that it deserves the title ‘America’s most intelligent newspaper‘ : Report: Majority Of Government Doesn’t Trust Citizens Either The Onion. May 19, 2010. WASHINGTON—At a time when widespread polling data suggests that a majority of the U.S. populace no longer trusts the federal government, a Pew Research Center report has […]

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A Few Thoughts on the Senate

29 May, 2010By The People, The Legislature

A firm belief of mine is that one of the greatest tasks facing this generation is the meaningful reform of America’s federal legislative system. We live in a time dominated by independent government agencies, imperial presidencies, and unabashedly insular party machines. In such an environment it is all too easy for the legislature to become […]

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Tales of America’s Broken Diplomacy

27 May, 2010Brazil, Diplomacy, Persia

The nuclear fuel-swap deal between Turkey, Brazil, and Iran has been received with quite a bit of hostility in America. Yet few sources (save perhaps the New York Daily News) have reacted with as much hostility to the deal as the White House. Take a few choice words offered by Secretary Clinton at a recent […]

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Very Cool

26 May, 2010Demographics, Energy, Geography, Sustainability

The United States emits more C02 in six seconds than Somalia does in two days. Breathing Earth is simulation that displays the number of deaths, births, and tons of CO2 emitted in every country on the Earth in real time. It is more than worth a quick look.

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Notes From All Over 26/05/2010

26 May, 2010Africa, Bharat, Climate, Crazy Stuff That Costs Way Too Much Money, Dogs of War, History, Latin America, Military Affairs, Notes From All Over, Political Theory, The Middle Kingdom

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. THE REPUBLIC American Murder Mystery Hannah Rosen Atlantic Magazine. July 2008. Over the last decade crime rates in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Chicago have all shrunk. A great American success story? Not quite. While the crime rates of the big cities fell, […]

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Lucky Find in the Library

14 May, 2010Books and Literature

Of late this corner of the blogosphere has been quite keen on the ideas of Ibn Khaldun. For the most part those discussing these ideas learned of them not in their work of origin, The Muqaddimah, but through well written intermediaries.* While I find no fault in this (I am far too guilty of this […]

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We are Losing This War, and Nobody Gives a Wit

14 May, 2010Bactria, COIN, Media, Military Affairs

The following words were written earlier this night by the editors of War News Updates. I copy them here without alteration. Afghanistan: The Forgotten War “Brookyards.” War News Updates. 13 May 2010. WNU Editor: In one email, Michael Yon has summarized what I have been trying to say for the past few years …. we […]

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Dreaming Grand Strategy

12 May, 2010Culture, Narrative, Political Theory, Strategy

Sometime last year I stumbled across a series of 500 word think pieces written by various professors of international relations, senior fellows housed in foreign policy think tanks, and other eminent experts on all matter of topics related to security studies. From what I could tell the series was a weekly affair; every week a […]

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A Poll For the Readership

10 May, 2010Site Announcements

Not too long ago I wrote: I have been a little busy this last week. Odds are that I will be busy over the next week as well. The wait should be worth it, however – I have written drafts of several posts that might just pique the readership’s interest. Later this week I should […]

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Notes From All Over 10/05/2010

10 May, 2010Bharat, Diplomacy, Domestic Politics, History, Military Affairs, Notes From All Over, Pakistan, Russia, Strategy, The Middle Kingdom, Wealth

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. A lot of good material has been published this week. I am a bit on the busy side, so the usual long winded responses will be replaced in favor of one-sentence summaries. THE REPUBLIC How Trillion Dollar Deficits Were Created New York Times. 9 June […]

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Monthly Archives: May 2010

We Laugh Because It is True (But Perhaps We Should Be Crying Too)

A Few Thoughts on the Senate

Tales of America’s Broken Diplomacy

Very Cool

Notes From All Over 26/05/2010

Lucky Find in the Library

We are Losing This War, and Nobody Gives a Wit

Dreaming Grand Strategy

A Poll For the Readership

Notes From All Over 10/05/2010

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