This Week’s Book Club
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 9th, 2010 4:38 am by HL
This Week’s Book Club
This week at Cafe, Daily Beast and Time contributor Peter Beinart joins us for a discussion of his new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris. Please welcome Peter and his fellow participants — Matt Yglesias, who…
Peter Beinart – Matt Yglesias – The Daily Beast – Saint Peter – Time
What’s Left
A plague of collective amnesia is spreading across the land. Barack Obama is erasing the intellectual legacy of progressive liberalism. There is a growing inability to distinguish between what is left or ‘progressive’ and what is centrist. The objective for…
Liberalism – Barack Obama – President – United States – Politics
Uncle Sucker in Afghanistan
I’ve been writing for a while about our misplaced priorities in Afghanistan, but Dexter Filkin’s latest reporting from the “graveyard of empires” really hits new heights in Catch-22 absurdity. We are spending millions per month of your taxpayer dollars to…
Afghanistan – Ahmed Wali Karzai – Asia – Warfare and Conflict – Afghanistan Civil War
