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A Lebanese Angle on the Rima Fakih Story

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...