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Is It Time to Reject African States?
That is essentially what a political scientist is arguing in a short piece in the New York Times: Yet because these countries were recognized by the international community before they even really...
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Syria and the Failure of Imperialisms (Old and New)
Dr Delacroix has recently left a question in the form of a comment that I think deserves to be answered. He asks: If you were 100% convinced that Assad of Syria had used chemical weapons on civilians,...
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Imperialism: The Illogical Nature of “Humanitarian” Wars
Dr Delacroix is simply unable to grasp my argument. There are two possible reasons for this: He simply does not want to grasp it He simply cannot grasp it Most of the time I believe that Reason #1 is...
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Imperialisms, Old and New: Sykes-Picot and the United Nations
Foreign policy expert (and Reason contributor) Michael Young had an op-ed out last week on nationalism and imperialism in the Middle East. Writing in The National, Young argues that Western imperialism...
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Dumbing Down the World
Public education has been a slowly degenerating disaster throughout the West, and now it seems we’re exporting it to the rest. At a United Nations meeting 15 years ago, the world’s governments agreed...
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From the Footnotes: Race, Nationality, and Empire
We have more to say than space allows about ‘race’ and ‘community’ as an imperial organizing category, especially in the British Empire, and about complex transformations and incongruities in...
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Cave Paintings and Elementary Science
This is a travel story of sorts, of travel through time, to an extent. Be patient. Directly to the west of Marseille, the second largest city in France are a series of beautiful, narrow coves, like...
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Unilateralism is not isolationism
One of the most frequent characterizations of US foreign policy in the 18th and 19th centuries is that it was isolationist. In 1796, when he decided not to run for a third presidential term, George...
View ArticleSome Monday Links: The food issue
Communism Destroyed Russian Cooking (Reason) How did pizza first appear in the Soviet Union? (Russia Beyond) How Not To Feed the Hungry: A Symposium (Law & Liberty) Vintage Thanksgiving Postcards...
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John Mearsheimer and the dark origins of realism (The New Statesman) How Did Asian Countries Vote on the UN’s Ukraine Resolution? (The Diplomat) Sisyphus’s breaktime (SMBC)
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