Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
So what if, according to Alan Friedman and TNR, Rumsfeld went to Baghdad in the 1980’s to re-establish diplomatic relations despite evidence of Saddam’s using mustard gas and a nerve gas? It only means Rumsfeld should be nowhere near the…
It’s awfully difficult for me to write more than three average-sized paragraphs. I’d rather limit myself to the bare gist, which often sounds cocky. I first wanted to call this project “The Opinionated Russian”. One conservative observer has written recently…
I think it was in the preface to the General Theory that Keynes put his famous maxim on “some defunct economist” whose ideas often hold in bondage the minds of “practical people”. Does anybody think JMK — or, rather, the…
What’s the point of inserting links nearly to every name and concept one mentions? It takes the fun out of the live writing. If the reader is intrigued, she can always run a Google search for what she’s curious about.…