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A Lebanese Angle on the Rima Fakih Story

Alex Sherbany - May 29, 2010

Apart from being an excellent excuse to boost web traffic with pictures of bikini-clad women (cf. The Huffington Post), you may not have seen Lebanese...

House Democrats Vote to Raise Taxes

Peyton Miller - May 29, 2010

Just before its Memorial Day recess, the House passed a bill that, according to The New York Times, would raise the taxes that investment...

The Quants Revisited

Jeffrey Kalmus - May 29, 2010

I reviewed Scott Patterson's book The Quants for our summer issue, and I'd like to expand upon my conclusion. I wrote: The professors are the...

Don't Ask Don't Tell and Harvard ROTC

Robert Long - May 29, 2010

At Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corps commissioning ceremony this Wednesday, Drew Faust urged Harvard's class of 2010 future officers to: Help reinforce the long tradition...

The Relative Value of Valor

Chris Danello - May 28, 2010

The New York Times Magazine has a fantastic article about the puzzle of the paucity of valor awards--those medals given for high acts of...

Rand Paul a Racist? I Think Not.

Peyton Miller - May 22, 2010

Sam Barr’s most recent post makes the rather shocking claim that Rand Paul, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky being...

Young Liberal American Jewish Zionism

Jeffrey Kalmus - May 21, 2010

In his recent essay "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment," Peter Beinart laments the disconnect young liberal American Jews feel from Israel and the...

Rand Paul: Against the Civil Rights Act

Sam Barr - May 20, 2010

As I said yesterday, the Kentucky Senate race between Rand Paul and Jack Conway should be a real battle. Paul is probably not helping...

Blumenthal Follow-Up

Sam Barr - May 20, 2010

Like Scott Lemieux and Nate Silver, I foolishly trusted the New York Times bombshell about CT attorney general Richard Blumenthal. I jumped immediately to...

Generational Inadequacy

Jonathan Yip - May 19, 2010

I just finished watching Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks' The Pacific, an HBO miniseries following a group of marines in WWII. And it was truly...