Unqualified Offerings

In the New York Times, Stephen C. Pelletiere writes

. . . as the Central Intelligence Agency’s senior political analyst on Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and as a professor at the Army War College from 1988 to 2000, I was privy to much of the classified material that flowed through Washington having to do [...]

Earlier this week I wrote about a notorious picture of antisemitic protesters at the Davos Conference in Switzerland. A European reader writes

I think you’re partially wrong here.
I don’t know if it’s the same in the US, but over here in the Netherlands, the golden calf is a symbol of blind greed (the veneration of [...]

With penetration, care and moral seriousness, Colby Cosh responds to Michael Fumento’s New Republic article attempting to debunk ADHD skepticism. I suspect that when most people think of Colby Cosh they think “Funny!” (or “Curling?!?!?!?!“) but this essay demonstrates how much more there is to him as a writer and thinker.
TalkLeft on the Richard Reid [...]

AP reports that “A powerful bomb destroyed a bridge outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Friday, killing 18 people on a bus, a deputy police chief said.

[Deputy police chief] Jan said he believed Afghan soldiers were the target of the explosion, which went off barely half a mile from an Afghan army post. [...]