It's strikingly reminiscent not just of the Soviet Union, but of the 1950s and 1960s Rand Corporation, data bureaucracy mindset that so many western liberals fought in the 1960s. (View Post)

Notice that none of the Club Med countries signed - that's because they're all dependent, to various degrees, on Chinese cash and investment since the financial crisis. (View Post)

It can be true that there are genuine reasons for grievance, and a new more abrasive form of personal politics that can sometimes make eventual resolution of these grievances actually take even longe… (View Post)

It does evade the underlying reasons for the problems, but it also fails to notice, or deliberately ignores, that the right could equally be described as being seized by its own abrasive and sometime… (View Post)

That is indeed an excellent article, and confirms my view for much of the earlier part of the year that there were huge dangers for the Democrats in picking Biden over Sanders. Unlike the author appa… (View Post)