According to accounts I've read, "Czar" Putin is a student of history (though perhaps not a top student). Yet he somehow missed this fact from Russian history: Russia is better off whe… (View Post)

I have two copies of the Penguin Atlas of Recent History, by Colin McEvedy. Why two? Because in the 1982 version, McEvedy said: "What had been greeted as peace quickly changed into an era of �… (View Post)

The controversy over Begum, discussed here, is part of a general confusion over whether attacks by radical Islamists should be treated as part of a war, to be prosecuted under Western war rules, or a… (View Post)

Let me extend what Morris_Dancer said. I agree that if you have compulsory voting (something I am not in favor of), you should definitely have a write-in choice on the ballot. But I would go further … (View Post)

Carter's most important humanitarian work was, in my opinion, on the eradication of the Guinea worm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_dracunculiasis (View Post)