The Contrarian Progressive

The other day I saw a graffiti in the Paris metro. It said: DSK: Satyre de la Republique . The creativity of my fellow  passenger  made ...

When I read about the " dolchstosslegende " in Harper's Magazine  a while ago (it is a must read for anyone) I remember seeing...

When the Bush administration engaged in a year long marketing to sell the Iraq war on WMD grounds, most war opponents assumed that it was a...

I have been living in Paris, for some time now. So, I heard first hand the collective gasp that followed the news that the Managing Direc...

What happened in Libya? If my previously expounded hypothesis is correct and the Arab Spring is more than a series of spontaneous r...

What if what took place in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Syria was not a spontaneous and romantic uprising by techno-savvy young people ...

Ever since I read in high school history books that the French Revolution occurred because of the subversive ideas of Jean Jacques Rousse...