Defending the UN

Defending the UN

Like beauty, the value of the United Nations lies in the eye of the beholder. Case in point, David Rothkopf’s recent screed on Foreign Policy.com (“You Can’t Spell Unproductive Without the Letters U and N”) against the world’s largest multilateral organization, the latest in a...
Supply, Demand, and the Mexican Drug War

Supply, Demand, and the...

Political analysis ANDREW BAST The war looks eerily familiar: beheadings, assassinations of police and public officials, terrorized businesspeople, extorted schoolteachers, and in five years more than 230 American civilians dead in the crossfire. All this could easily describe the battle...
We’re All Just Left Joking Around

We’re All Just Le...

In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Žižek (Verso Books, 2008, 208 pgs.) Jennifer Anniston is a terrorist. This is how low leftist intellectuals have sunk. Set aside for a moment what a downright silly moniker a leftist intellectual has become and instead consider this: theory-hungry...