We thought that the yellow men with buck teeth couldn’t fight. That turned out about as well as one might expect. “Never fear your enemy, but respect him, always.” How often that precept is ignored. (View Post)

It would depend on how friendly they were, and how similar the alignment in terms of foreign policy. India and South Africa have very different ambitions to us, I think. Singapore, Botswana, and Mala… (View Post)

Honestly, I’d be delighted if the Singaporeans sent over a cadre to teach us how to govern ourselves properly. (View Post)

It’s hard to see the behaviour of Justices Alito and Thomas as not being highly improper, on the part of judges. That’s not a matter of partisanship. (View Post)

I think Frank Herbert was wrong, and Hannah Arendt and Christopher Browning were right. Evil leaders are very rarely dark messiahs; they're ordinary men (and sometimes women), who quite suddenly… (View Post)