Message to America: Hands off Egypt!
After decades of backing autocrats, the best thing Washington can do for the cause of Egyptian democracy is to butt out.
Read my spiked article in full here.
The reality of Obama’s interference in Egypt
Here’s President Obama’s statement in response to Mubarak’s announcement that he will not stand in the elections planned for September.
As I mentioned in my post yesterday, there is a contrast between Obama’s rhetoric of support for Egyptian self-determination and the reality ...
Gary V: Finger Lakes wines due respect
I first wrote about Gary Vaynerchuk here. In this segment of his internet show, Gary bigs ...
The US should not “do more” in Egypt
It is exciting to see the Egyptian people rebelling against the Mubarak regime and demanding democracy. They should be fully ...
This week’s articles of note
“Dealing with Assange and the Wikileaks secrets,” The New York Times Magazine, by Bill Keller
“Nudge on trial,” Slate, by David Weigel
“Detroitism: what does ‘ruin porn’ tell us about the motor city?” Guernica, by John Patrick Leary
“Crunch time: Barack Obama’s next two years,” The Economist
“The revolt ...
Ann Furedi responds to William Saletan on late-term abortion
In Slate, William Saletan last week used the recent case of the Philadelphia abortion-clinic doctor, Kermit Gosnell, to re-state his argument against late-term abortion. In that article, one of the “absolutists” who Saletan criticizes is Ann Furedi, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service.
Furedi herself recently wrote “a ...
Obama rebounds in polls
Heading into tomorrow night’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama is riding a wave of rising approval ratings.
Most polls over the past week show Obama at over a 50 percent approval rating. Real Clear Politics’ average of polls (graph above) finds 51.0 percent approve, the President’s highest ...
Leave the Tiger Mother behind
For a level-headed take on the Amy “Tiger Mother” Chua business that puts the discussion into perspective, I recommend you read Nancy McDermott’s post.
She argues that this is another case of “seeing social and cultural issues through the ...
This week’s articles of note
“What is a good life?” The New York Review of Books, by Ronald Dworkin
“The baby butcher: pro-choice absolutism and a grisly abortion scandal in Philadelphia,” Slate, by William Saletan
“Back to full employment,” Boston Review, by Robert Pollin
“Real men find real utopias,” Dissent, by Russell Jacoby [Review ...
Naomi Klein, reactionary
This Naomi Klein talk is so crass, wrong and bad, it’s ...
