Matthew Yglesias: The Strange Case of Woodrow Wilson.
I'm reading Ann Hagedorn's Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America
1919, which hasn't had much to say about Wilson in the first 100
pages, but no doubt will. Meanwhile, much of what I know about...
Not real sure what happened last week, except that I got distracted
by the stainless steel countertop project, and I got increasingly
confused and frustrated by the demands of finalizing a year-end ballot
and writing my little sidebar piece. I...
I've often felt that it would be much more straightforward to give
a Nobel Prize for War than one for Peace. The criteria would be much
simpler and self-evident, and the competition would be stiff enough
to ensure a steady stream of contenders....
Matthew Yglesias: Strange Victory:
More opining on the Iraq surge. I still believe that if you look at the
timeline on the surge, you'll find elevated violence all the way from
the start to Petraeus's congressional testimony, then a big drop in...
I should be closing out my Jazz Consumer Guide column, hoping
that the offer of a January publish date is real and I'll be able
to recover some time against what seems like an ever-increasing
backlog. I've long felt that the column should run at...
