I've Never Been to Katmandu
“Run and find out.” Motto of all the Mongoose family Rudyard Kipling Rikki-tikki-tavi November 2012: I was starting to sweat. It was a...
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- Aug 28, 2020
- 4 min
Machiavellian, But Not In a Bad Way
Dubai stands out between on the Persian Gulf like an air-conditioned glob of Kardashian on the edge of a baking, austere peninsula.
- Feb 4, 2020
- 3 min
Drinking Lebanese Beer in Iraq
Iraq's Shi'a south looks like you think it will unless you haven't watched the news for a decade. Then it's hard to explain.
- Jan 31, 2020
- 3 min
HMS Brexit Needs to Sail For Singapore
Britain sails out of the EU today, it can pursue classic liberalism, that green and pleasant land will outpace the EU in a generation.
- Jan 7, 2020
- 5 min
We Aren't Going to War With Iran
Whatever it is that Iran can do to us, they’re already doing it.
- Dec 20, 2019
- 7 min
Terrible Political Jokes in Ukraine
When politics is a blood sport, the jokes just keep getting worse.
- Nov 22, 2019
- 5 min
A War of Bad, Abstract Ideas
John Bolton and his mustache want to go to war with Iran. We should resist the urge.
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