One of the most famous thought-experiments in economics is Bastiat's story of the broken window, which the French economist used to argue against the common belief that destruction stimulates economic activity. In Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt uses the broken...
Abuse of death is nothing new in the Balkans or, indeed, the Empire. It was perhaps too much to expect that Boris Trajkovski's tragic end in the Herzegovina mountains would be spared the same fate. Antiwar.com's resident Macedonia expert Chris Deliso has a great piece...
You do understand that Albright did lie, innocent people did (and continue to) die, the Clinton administration and NATO did sex-up intelligence about Yugoslavia and did misrepresent Milosevic as the new Hitler, and that our Balkan adventure is indeed a quagmire, don't...
Another delightful article on NRO today from Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime Communist thug in charge of Romania's DIE, current neoconservative flak. The typical Pacepa essay, I've noticed, opens with a brief "trust me, I've hung with some bad mofos" hook to reel the Tom...
They Marched into Sunlight is worth reading, especially for people like me who are interested in the Vietnam War but too young to remember it. Maraniss tells two main stories, based on interviews: an ambush of US soldiers in Vietnam and an antiwar demonstration gone...
Nestled inside another Economist article is this little tidbit about the Iraqi governing council's take on freedom of the press: Though appointed and not elected, the council is reasonably representative of Iraq's various groups. But it also has its flaws, one of...
The current count of Americans killed in Iraq is 548. According to The Economist, the number would be much higher if the military was not outsourcing the more dangerous jobs: What the figures suggest is that the number of attacks is going up even more sharply, though...
Back in 2000, Justin Raimondo wrote an article called "An Electronic Pearl Harbor?" about curious Kosovo war-related hacker attacks and the role of Network Solutions, the then-monopolist of Internet domain names. Interested readers can revisit this story in Sold...
In addition to knowing that 548 soldiers have been killed, 9500+ wounded -- many missing arms, legs and eyes -- and almost 1000 having been treated for psychiatric problems, military personnel will have to worry about the residual effects of depleted uranium and other...
