Cold War Court Historian: On the Death of Robert Conquest

Hoover Institution and Heritage Foundation fellow, Thatcher flack, Reagan sycophant, repentant Oxford undergraduate communist (rather like having joined a campus Gilbert and Sullivan troupe–he was simultaneously a member of the Tory-bastion Carlton Club), proto-Formalist poet, advocate of a zenophobic “Anglosphere” of nations–Robert Conquest’s affiliations comprise a panoply of right wing encomia. His lifework was delineating […]

Virgin Galactic Myopic: Blame the Dead Pilot

The venerable aviation tradition of blaming dead pilots for fatal crashes continues with the investigation of last October’s Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo disaster. The NTSB spreads plenty of opprobrium around, putting private manufacturers and federal agencies on the hook, but finally it’s the dead co-pilot’s hand on the lever that unlocked the craft’s radical wing “feathering” […]

Letter from President Ronald J. Daniels: APL’s Extraordinary CLASSIFIED* Achievement

Dear Members of the Johns Hopkins Community,

Yesterday, our university made history. I had the great privilege of being at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory with CLASSIFIED as we celebrated CLASSIFIED. Thanks to the ingenuity and leadership of our colleagues at APL, humankind has now CLASSIFIED. After nearly CLASSIFIED years of exhaustive planning and […]

Who Forgets German History?

Almost everybody except the Germans. Thomas Piketty’s very French diatribe in Die Zeit (in German, so paste it into Google Translate for a ricketty English version) against current German behavior towards Greece skips just about everything related to World War I and the Cold War. Eduardo Porter’s Picketty mimicry in the New York Times is […]

Where Have All the Greek Euros Gone, Long Time Passing?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

source: Congressional Research Service

 

 

 

 

Other top military suppliers to Greece: Germany, $4.75 billion (2010) and France, $3.25 billion (2010)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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David M. Rubenstein: American Philanthropy as Reputation Laundromat

The ascension of Carlyle Group founder David M. Rubenstein to the National Gallery’s board of trustees–the Washington Post now identifies him simply as “Philanthropist David M. Rubenstein”, though at ARTnews he’s just a “macher”–marks perhaps the final wash cycle in the laundering of his old reputation as a defense industry leveraged buyout greenmailer. Everybody loves […]

Cold War II

The full panoply of the old Cold War institutional industrial complex is on display in today’s New York Times thought-bubble story about a “proposal” to store American infantry materiel in Eastern Europe. The ghost of Drew “The General” Middleton, the paper’s reliable kazoo for all things military for five decades, must be smiling with satisfaction […]

422 PowerBars: The American Response to Fukushima

Maryland is a very small state with two big cities, one of which is the nation’s capital. Both are well within various official hazard zones surrounding the region’s two nuclear power plants, at Calvert Cliffs and Peach Bottom. After the Fukushima disaster, the nuclear industry faced not just new technical problems, but the public relations […]

Alamo U: On the Texas “Campus-Carry” Law

Faculty familiar with the high workaday levels of stress and anxiety among contemporary American college students fear that tragedies are inevitable on campuses where carrying concealed guns is legal. With Texas about to join seven other states where professors will never know which unhappypdxcommercial.com cialis 10 mg This medicinal drug must be consumed in the […]

Sideshow Bob: On the Death of T.K. Jones

The death of T.K. “With Enough Shovels” Jones recalls the years when Ronald Reagan led a sideshow of very squirrely characters into high office. For any Washington reporter in those days, the story that could not be told, at least in the pages of The New York Times, was that Reagan’s right harbored an array […]