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Edward Snowden and Acts of Conscience

June 11, 2013   ·   2 Comments

By Daniel Warner: A young, former C.I.A. technician has publicly stated that he was behind the recent revelations about the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) ...

“Going down in flames if that was required”: The Limits of Liberal Interventionism

By Daniel Warner: Frenzied diplomatic action is taking place in Geneva and around the world to prepare for an eventual conference to try to halt the continuing fighting and grave human rights, humanitarian law violations in Syria.

The Vatican Bank: In God We Trust?

By Matthew Stevenson: When the cardinals sent billowing white smoke from their conclave and elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis I, little did the Catholic ...

The Boston Bombers: Unpacking the Terrorist Threat

By Daniel Warner: The recent bombings in Boston have unleashed a torrent of commentaries. While investigations are ongoing concerning the backgrounds of the suspects with no ...

Reichstag Smoke and Mirrors in Boston

By Matthew Stevenson: Although the facts from the ground in Massachusetts suggest that the bombs were set off in the spirit of anarchic violence—as explosives have ...

Remaking Motor City

From Eugene Schulman: Regarding David Segal's article NYT, 14 April, 2013 article "A Missionary's Quest to Remake Motor City," I certainly wish Dan Gilbert well. But I think he is going about refurbishing Detroit in the wrong way.

Obama’s Holy Land Tour

By Matthew Stevenson: You have to hand it to the Israeli government for persuading President Barack Obama to sign up for its Holy Land “Stand Against ...

Making the World Safe for the Oscars

By Matthew Stevenson: Having Michelle Obama beamed into the Oscar awards is a subtle way of saying that the real wars...

Why Obama Gave Woods a Mulligan

By Matthew Stevenson: Headline in the Times: Woods and Obama, a Weekend Pairing That Can’t Help but Draw Attention ‘Speaking on behalf of the White House Correspondents ...

David Brooks Flunks International Relations Theory 101

By Daniel Warner: Brooks’ caricature of Machiavelli allows him to pose a dilemma that has appeared regularly in Realist literature as a binary division between idealism and realistic power politics that is now couched in terms of using drones.

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