Jeffrey Goldberg apparently doctored his Friday post on the Norway attacks to make himself look less bigoted and ridiculous. Read "Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, and Journalistic Ethics" and "No Shame at The Atlantic?" for details. I'll go ahead and resolve that...
This Week in Viewpoints
Today I spoke with Scott Horton on Antiwar Radio about this week's Viewpoints and my criteria for selecting opinion pieces (no link yet). Here are some of the pieces we discussed: David J. Theroux: "Ending Invasive Wars" Gene Healy: "Lessons From Norway's Horror" Jeff...
Oh, About That Other Thing I Said Friday
Jesse Walker has some solid reading recommendations here.
Was I Unfair to The Atlantic?
On Friday, I included The Atlantic in a list of sources that "ran with the unsubstantiated Muslim-terrorist angle" immediately after the attacks in Norway. I was referring to a they-hate-us-for-our-freedoms piece about an alleged 2010 plot by three Muslims against...
Norwegian Wood
Before Norwegian authorities arrested a sole, Norwegian suspect in today's murders, America's professional bullshitters stroked themselves into quite the, er, terrection, if you will. A sampling: Jennifer Rubin: This is a sobering reminder for those who think it’s too...
Cold War Americans Not as Fainthearted as You Might Think
At Reason, Greg Beato sketches the history of the fallout shelter in Cold War America. Apparently, most people didn't get too carried away with doomsday preparations: "Despite what a 1961 issue of Good Housekeeping derided as 'massive propaganda to induce Americans to...
You Won’t Have Ahmed Wali Karzai to Kick Around Anymore
Ahmed Wali Karzai was assassinated this morning. Two weeks ago, Matthieu Aikins reported on the push to make Hamid Karzai's half-brother a provincial governor: Last Wednesday, nearly 200 tribal elders and other notables from Kandahar Province convened in the Roshan...
Farewell, Alan Bock
Though my interaction with Alan Bock was fairly limited and strictly virtual—emailing occasional editorial queries or kudos after particularly strong pieces—I was a longtime admirer of his. I knew Mr. Bock's work before I had ever heard of Antiwar.com, as I had a...
Posthumous Moore Award Winner: Mark Twain
"He [Theodore Roosevelt] knew perfectly well that to pen six hundred helpless and weaponless savages in a hole like rats in a trap and massacre them in detail during a stretch of a day and a half, from a safe position on the heights above, was no brilliant feat of...
Why Are People Grudgeful?
Timothy P. Carney weighs in on the "Cato purge": [Brink] Lindsey will be portrayed as a martyr, excommunicated for his heresies from the Right's dogma. In this role, he joins neoconservative writer David Frum, who was driven from the American Enterprise Institute...
