Hot links from recent days: “I breastfeed my dad” … Station’s merger with Fox costs Denver its Cinco de Mayo parade … Damn those Mayans and their calendar! … Jeff Huber on sticker shock and awe … Imagine, if you will, an all-female society that reproduces by cloning … David Broder on Obama’s first 100 […]
Archive | April 27, 2009
Brave New World Order
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. – Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) by Jeff Huber A new world order began when the Berlin Wall came down in late 1989.The next […]
The Deproliferator: Not missile — but prevent — defense
At Rethinking Nuclear Weapons, independent nuclear scholar Ward Wilson wrote about the recent Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference. Even though it began the day after President Obama’s Prague speech. . . What surprised me was the number of speakers who talked about the difficulties of “getting to zero.” This year [almost] everyone seemed to see some […]






