Unqualified Offerings

Doug Feith has made a “personal and family reasons” decision. Alas, he is unlikely to live out the rest of his days in bitter obscurity or rueful reclusiveness. He’ll slide back into a foundation sinecure until the wind changes, maybe amuse himself trying to torpedo the latest chance for Israeli-Palestinian peace in the meanwhile.
Always welcome […]

Andrew has more on the when to go to war question. Excerpt:
Before I get started, let me start some ground rules: I am trying to establish ground rules for when it is appropriate to go to war, not to retroactively determine the rightness or wrongness of the Iraq war. While I don’t think that’s a […]

Mrs. Offering sent me a link to the “Dude” study as possible blog fodder, but Gene Healy already took care of it.
His conclusion:
Do you realize what a fabulously wealthy society we are?
Rock on, scholars and bloggers!

to the year 2002. How did we ever hash all this stuff out without you?
Meanwhile, Becker’s co-blogger Richard Posner approaches the issue mathematically. As I understand it, if I think there’s a 1 in a 1,000 chance that pinko Chavez in Venezuela will acquire and launch smallpox against the US, potentially causing 10 million casualties, […]

Gas prices being what they are, Mrs. Offering and I have looked longingly at higher-priced gas-electric hybrids. The Auto journalist Bob Elton suggests they may not be All That after all. Just one perspective, but a sobering one.
(Via Marginal Revolution.)