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Byng
To paraphrase Voltaire on the unfortunate Admiral Byng, in this country it is wise to throw a central banker under the bus from time to time to encourage the others. I nominate Helicopter Ben for chie… more →
The Committee of Public Safety
Byng
josephfouche wrote 3 days ago: To paraphrase Voltaire on the unfortunate Admiral Byng, in this country it is wise to throw a centra … more →
Creditanstalt
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josephfouche wrote 1 week ago: Creditanstalt was an Austrian bank whose failure in May of 1931 triggered the penultimate crisis of … more →
Politics Redux
josephfouche wrote 2 weeks ago: T. Greer asks: I am curious as to your definitions of “politics” and “policy.” In the original Germa … more →
Promised Land, Crusader State: Liberty, or Exceptionalism, or the Division Between Heaven and Hell
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josephfouche wrote 3 weeks ago: The first principle Walter McDougall proposes as part of his “Old Testament” of American … more →
Pull Out a Gat and Fetch My Fukuyama Bat
josephfouche wrote 1 month ago: If Francis Fukuyama didn’t exist and hadn’t ever written The End of History and the Last … more →
Advice on Afghanistan From an Expert
josephfouche wrote 1 month ago: Know when to hold them. Know when to fold them. Know when to walk away. Know when to run. Never coun … more →
Mercy to the Guilty is Cruelty to the Innocent
josephfouche wrote 1 month ago: (via Isegoria) Porphyrogenitus had this interesting post On Asymmetric Warfare: The Sources of Insur … more →
Don't Talk to the Monkey
josephfouche wrote 2 months ago: Why does anyone pay attention to the monkey? Pay attention to the organ grinder. Pay no attention to … more →
America's Grand Strategy Deficit...Solved!!!
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josephfouche wrote 2 months ago: Eye of a Needle America now has a single, unified, cohesive grand strategy. It turns out that even a … more →
Xenophon Roundtable: The Shadow of Herodotus
josephfouche wrote 2 months ago: Cunaxa is an interesting counter-point to the three traditional pillars of Herodotus’s Histori … more →
Afghanistan: The Curse of Being Clever
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: Live Long and Boogie George W. Bush wasn’t the brightest bulb in the lighting store. But he ha … more →
Shooting at Skyline College leaves Suburbanites Stunned
silentconsort wrote 3 months ago: **** update- there were 6 of them total - this article says they let two go-http://www.mercurynews … more →
Three Posts and the Continuity of Strife
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josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: Yo Joe!!! Three recent items raise three questions: First, Kotare takes exception to random string o … more →
Week Links in the Chain: How Many Nuclear Licks Does It Take to Get to the Center of the Earth
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: Isegoria links to this post on how many nuclear bombs it would take to destroy the world. An illustr … more →
In a Debateable Land
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: The Prince of Ghor The first American to enter Afghanistan was one Josiah Harlan. During a conversat … more →
Assumptions: Desire
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: The universe is split in two: the outside world and you. The Outside World and You Desire is somethi … more →
The Iron Law of Wikioligarchy
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: I read this article and thought of several of the principles that James Burnham extracted from The M … more →
Razzia
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josephfouche wrote 4 months ago: Where's the beef? There is an ongoing tug of war in the U.S. Armed Forces between two factions t … more →
August 5, 2009 Photo One Hundred and Twenty-six
shutterwasp wrote 4 months ago: Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it … more →
