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On the other hand, another passage from the same article is twaddle:
One cannot separate the so-called “soft power” of the United States–the global dominance of its culture, beginning with its language–from its military strength.
Rock fans around the world listen in English; so do fighter pilots. The same information technologies that make the Internet a decidedly [...]

Glenn Greenwald reminds that back in 1998, in the august pages of The Non Republic, Eliot “Commissar assigned to Condi” Cohen wrote
The United States is today by far the most powerful state on the planet. If it chooses to remain so, citizen and soldier alike must brace themselves for the occasional imperial fiasco. More important, [...]

Speaking of public education, as people are doing downblog, if anyone can provide any insight on how a fifth-grader can claw his way up the Montgomery County middle school magnet program waiting list over, oh, the next week and a half, I’d be more grateful to learn than you can conceive.

I had a good day, but I’m tired.  I left early, went to some interesting talks on cell motion, then got coffee, then got more coffee, then went to some more interesting talks on cell motion.  The truth is that I went to the talks for the intro slides, not the later slides.  I’ve only [...]