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Entries

2008

Jun 14 · Class, Status, and Power in the USA and EU

May 24 · Libertarians vs. Macroeconomics: Long-Term Economic Growth

May 21 · The Consequences of Illegal Immigration and What To Do

May 15 · Why Are Americans Pessimistic These Days about Our Country?

May 12 · More Declinist Nonsense about the US Global Role

May 10 · HBO's In Treatment: 9th in a Series

May 04 · HBO's In Treatment: 8th in a Series and A New Divertimento

May 02 · HBO's In Treatment: 7th in a Series and A Divertimento

Apr 27 · HBO's In Treatment: 6th in a Series

Apr 16 · HBO's "In Treatment" Drama-Series: 5th in a Series

Apr 13 · Unglued Madhouse Lechery "In Treatment:" 4th in a Series

Apr 11 · In Treatment: 3rd in a Series

Mar 29 · HBO's "In Treatment" Drama-Series: 2nd in a Series

Mar 25 · HBO's Extraordinary "In Treatment" Drama-Series: 1st in a Series

Mar 12 · Libertarian Philosophy, Economics, and Hegemonial Free Trade: 4th in a Series

Feb 18 · Libertarian Philosophy, Economics, and Hegemonial Free Trade: 3rd in a Series

Feb 15 · Libertarian Philosophy, Economics, and Hegemonial Free Trade: 2nd in a Series

Feb 10 · Do Free-Market Libertarians Understand the Need for Liberal Hegemony? 1st in a Series

Feb 07 · The US Health-Care System, Comparatively Viewed

Jan 22 · The Scandinavian Economies vs. the US's: 4th in a Series

Jan 09 · The Scandinavian Economies vs. the US Economy: 3rd in a Series

2007

Dec 31 · 2nd Exchanges about the Performance of the US and EU Economies

Dec 30 · US and EU Economic Performances: An Exchange with Others

Dec 25 · Is a Falling Dollar Good or Bad for the US Economy

Dec 21 · Prof Bug Sabbatical About To End

Apr 29 · The Buggy Web Site's Redevelopment and A New Series of Articles

Feb 28 · Can a Nuclear-Armed Terror-State Like Iran Be Reliably Deterred? 9th Article in a Series

Jan 11 · Can a Nuclear-Armed Terror-State Like Iran Be Reliably Deterred? 8th Article in a Series

Jan 03 · Prof Bug Posting Very Soon

2006

Oct 21 · Can A Nuclear Terror State Like Iran Be Reliably Deterred from Agression and Stepped-up Support of Terrorism? No. 7 in a Series

Sep 11 · Why President Ahmadinejad's Frenzied Views Resonate Intellectually and Emotionally in the Islamic World: 6th in a Series on Iran

Aug 18 · Iran's Ahmadinejad and Why His Dogmatic, Politically Charged Religious Worldview Strikes So Many Resonances in Global Islam: 5th in a Series

Aug 01 · What Explains President Ahmadinejad's Wild Acclaim in the Islamic World: 4th in a Series on Iran

Jul 18 · Can A Nuclear Terror State Like Iran Be Reliably Deterred from Aggression and Stepped-up Support of Terrorism? No. 3 in a Series

Jul 05 · Can an Iranian Nuclear Force Be Reliably Deterred to Prevent Aggression and Stepped-up Jihadi Terrorism? 2nd in a Series of Articles

Jun 21 · CAN AN IRANIAN NUCLEAR FORCE BE RELIABLY DETERRED TO PREVENT AGGRESSION AND THE USE OF STEPPED-UP JIHADI TERRORISM? 1st in a Series of Articles

May 06 · The Causes of Contemporary Islamic Conspiratorial Lunacies and Jihad-Infested Rage: 3nd in a Series of Articles

May 02 · The Causes of Contemporary Islamic Conspiratorial Lunacies and Jihad-Infested Rage: 2nd in a Series of Articles

Apr 21 · The Religion of Peace Spreads More Love and Good-Will Among All Peoples: No. 1 in a 2-Article Series

Apr 11 · Robert Pape's Whitewash Work of the Jihadist Roots of Islamic Terrorism: 12th Article in a Series on Dying to Win.

Mar 22 · Robert Pape's Whitewash of the Two Islamo-Fascisms: 11th Article in a Series

Mar 13 · Robert Pape's Whitewash Work and Intellectual Betrayal in Dying-To-Win Examined: 10th Article in a Series.

Jan 27 · Robert Pape Tests His Theory of Suicide Terrorism Statistically: 9th in a 10-Part Series

2005

Dec 22 · Robert Pape's Odd Mixture of Power-Realism, Appeasement, and PC-Inspired Apologia Examined: 8th in a 10-article Series

Dec 20 · Robert Pape Tests His Theory of Suicide Terrorism Statistically: 7th in a 9-Part Series

Dec 14 · Robert Pape Tests His Theory of Suicide Terrorism Statistically: 6th in a 9-Part Series

Nov 10 · Robert Pape Tests His Theory of Suicide Terrorism Statistically: 5th of a 9-article Series

Oct 22 · ROBERT PAPE TESTS HIS THEORY OF SUICIDE TERRORISM STATISTICALLY: 4th of a 7-article Series

Sep 16 · ROBERT PAPE'S DYING TO WIN: 3rd of a 4-article Series

Sep 03 · ROBERT PAPE'S DYING TO WIN: 2nd of a 4-article Series

Aug 24 · JIHAD TERRORISM CONTINUED: ROBERT PAPE'S DYING TO WIN

Jul 28 · JIHAD TERRORISM AND RADICAL ISLAMIST FUNDAMENTALISM: 1st of 5 pr 6 Articles

Jul 04 · IDEOLOGIES AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: 6th Article in a Series

Jun 11 · IDEOLOGIES AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: 5th Article in a Series

May 29 · IDEOLOGIES AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: 4th Article in a Series

May 18 · IDEOLOGIES AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: 3rd Article in a Series

May 05 · YANKEE-TWIT VS. EURO-JERK: Or Why The EU's Work Ethos Is Shot

May 03 · BUGGY BACK: AMERICAN IDEOLOGIES AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN COMPARATIVE TERMS

Feb 22 · WHY NO SOCIALISM OR MARXISM IN AMERICAN POLITICAL LIFE: 6th in a Mini-Series of Articles

Jan 20 · WHY NO SOCIALISM OR MARXISM IN AMERICAN POLITICAL LIFE: 5TH Article in a Series

Jan 05 · WHY NO SOCIALISM OR MARXISM IN AMERICAN POLITICAL LIFE: 4th Article in a Series

2004

Dec 21 · The American Left's Unique Political Traditions: An Exchange With A Visitor

Dec 16 · Final Version WHY NO SOCIALISM OR MARXISM IN AMERICAN POLITICAL LIFE: 2nd of 3 Articles On The US Left

Dec 11 · WHY NO SOCIALISM OR MARXISM IN AMERICAN POLITICAL LIFE: 1st of 2 Articles

Dec 06 · AMERICAN IDEOLOGICAL EXCEPTIONALISM: WHY NO SOCIALIST TRADITIONS? 1st in a Mini-Series

Nov 25 · Happy Thanksgiving To One and All!

Nov 15 · Bush's America And The EU: 2nd Article of a Mini-Series

Nov 12 · THE BUSH RE-ELECTION AND THE EU REACTIONS: 1st of a Two-Article Mini-Series

Nov 10 · THE US ELECTIONS AND WEST EUROPE: AN EXCHANGE WITH A BRITISH-AMERICAN CITIZEN

Oct 11 · THE CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC LEAD: 11th Article In An Ongoing Series

Sep 26 · Prof Bug Away For A 5-Day Trip

Sep 24 · Buggy Back In Business: A Spanish Interlude

Aug 30 · The Buggy Prof Back Soon

Aug 09 · WHY, TRADITIONALLY AND AT PRESENT, ARE INTELLECTUALS HOSTILE TO FREE-MARKET CAPITALISM? 10th in a Series

Aug 01 · WHY THE US HAS BEEN THE RICHEST COUNTRY SINCE THE 1880s: 9th in a Series

Jul 26 · WHY HAS THE US RICHEST COUNTRY SINCE 1880? 8th in a Series

Jul 22 · WHY THE US HAS BEEN THE RICHEST COUNTRY SINCE THE 1880s: 7th in a Series

Jul 20 · WHY HAS THE US BEEN THE RICHEST COUNTRY WORLD SINCE THE 1880s? 6th In A Series

Jul 15 · IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN: Was War To Topple Their Mass-Murdering Regimes Worth It?

Jul 09 · WHY THE US HAS BEEN THE RICHEST COUNTRY SINCE THE 1880's: 5th in a Series

Jun 29 · AN EXCHANGE WITH A VISITOR ON THE US ECONOMY'S ALLEGED DANGERS: 2nd of 2 Articles

Jun 24 · AN EXCHANGE WITH A VISITOR ON THE US ECONOMY'S ALLEGED DANGERS: 1st of 2 Articles

Jun 21 · ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: WHAT EXPLAINS THE ONGOING US LEAD IN INNOVATION? 5th in a Series

Jun 12 · ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: WHY THE US LEADS THE WORLD. 4th of a 8-Article Series

Jun 02 · WHAT EXPLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT? 3rd of a 8-Part Mini-Series

Jun 01 · WHAT EXPLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT? 2nd of a 8-Part Mini-Series

May 31 · WHAT EXPLAINS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT? 1st of a 8-Part Mini-Series

May 21 · TURKISH AND ARAB DEVELOPMENT--THEIR SUCCESSES AND STUBBORN ONGOING PROBLEMS--COMPARED WITH EUROPE'S IN THE PAST

May 18 · Ottoman and Arab Developmental Failures and Ongoing Problems: Some Comparisons: 3rd of a 3-Article Series

May 14 · TURKEY'S DEMOCRATIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROBLEMS: 2nd of a Two-Part Mini-Series

May 08 · THE DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS OF THE ARAB WORLD: THE TURKISH MODEL AND CONTRAST. A 2-Part Mini-Series

May 07 · THE DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS OF THE ARAB WORLD: 7th of an 9-Article Series

Apr 30 · Final. ARAB COUNTRIES RANKED BY THEIR DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS: 6th in a 9 article series.

Apr 29 · The EU at an Historical Juncture Amid Gloom and Pessimism

Apr 27 · Final Version: DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS AND THE MIDDLE EAST: #5 of an 9 Article Series

Apr 20 · WAR, POWER POLITICS, AND ITS CAUSES: SOME RECENT PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES

Apr 19 · Reply to a Visitor on the Prospects of Iraq for Democratic Government

Apr 14 · DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS IN IRAQ AND THE MIDDLE EAST (Final Version): #4 of an 8-article series

Apr 08 · DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: #3 of an 8-Article Series

Apr 05 · Saudi Bribe Money in US Academia, Plus Attacks on Free Speech & Civility

Mar 29 · The Acute Need for the New US Policy in the Arab World: #2 of an 8 article series.

Mar 29 · Bush Initiative to Promote Democratic Change in the Middle East: #1 of an 8-articles

Mar 22 · The Sour, Scapegoating Mood in Germany and Much of the Rest of the EU

Mar 20 · #2 of a Two-Part Series. EU PUBLIC OPINION AND THE USA: THE IMPACT OF MEDIA AND INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS

Mar 19 · #1 of 2 Articles. EU PUBLIC OPINION AND THE USA: THE IMPACT OF THE MEDIA AND INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS

Mar 17 · More on Spain and Other European NATO Allies: The Coalition of the Willing

Mar 15 · # 2 of 2 Articles. The Madrid Bombings: Will Appeasement of Islamo-Fascist Terrorism Work?

Mar 14 · #1 of 2 Articles: Will Appeasement of Islamo-Fascist Terrorism Work? The Spanish Case

Mar 05 · Pakistan under Musharraf: One of the Two or Three Most Important Countries for the US

Mar 05 · THE MUFTI, THE WAR ON TERRORISM, AND ISLAMIST RADICALISM #3 of 3 Articles

Mar 01 · THE MUFTI, THE WAR ON TERRORISM, AND ISLAMIST RADICALISM: #2 of 3 Articles

Feb 28 · The Head of Australia's 300,000 Muslims Calls for More Heroic 9/11 Jihads and Mass-Murder #1 of 3 articles

Feb 24 · THE BUSH REVOLUTION: A Firm Commitment to Arab Democracy: #1 of 2 Articles

Feb 20 · Follow-up Exchange On US And European Diplomatic Styles

Feb 18 · NATO'S CLASHING DIPLOMATIC STYLES, #2 of Two Articles

Feb 17 · NATO AND CLASHING US-EU DIPLOMATIC SYTLES: #1 of 2 Articles

Feb 10 · EXCHANGE ON MORALITY AND US FOREIGN POLICY AND INTERNET CONSPIRATORIAL RUMOR-MONGERING

Feb 05 · THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES: Take #2

Feb 02 · THE US AND EUROPE: A THREE-PART MINI-SERIES: #1 Why The Bandwagoning To Bush's America?

Jan 24 · EXCHANGE ON THE US ECONOMY, A FOLLOW-UP TO THE PREVIOUS ARTICLE

Jan 24 · THE EU COMMISSION ADMITS IT: THE ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL GAP WITH THE US WILL AGGRAVATE BY 2010

Jan 23 · A Remarkably Astute and Readable Account of Life in Saudi Arabia: A New Yorker Article

Jan 22 · A Former Student Asks For Buggy Views of the Democratic Contenders

Jan 22 · An Exchange with a Visitor on US Volunteerism and EU Statism, Plus Immigration to the US and Europe

Jan 20 · US Voluntarism vs. EU Continental Statism II: EU Challenges, Conflicts, Pessimism, and Violence

Jan 19 · Exchange with a visitor: Volunteer Work in the US, Comparatively Viewed

Jan 16 · AMERICAN POWER PREDOMINANCE: The Series on US Exceptionalism Resumes

Jan 13 · THE BUSH REVOLUTION IN FOREIGN POLICY

Jan 11 · The Beneficial Fall-Out of the Bush Administration's Diplomacy and Military Policies

Jan 07 · Political Science 129: The US, Europe, and Asia, and the War On Terrorism

Jan 03 · EU Social Conflicts and Violence: Letter Bombs Target Top EU Officials. Just The Beginning

2003

Dec 31 · Final Version. Follow-Up on Cultural Relativism and Social Constructionism

Dec 30 · The Absurdities of Cultural Relativism: Another Buggy Take

Dec 25 · INCENDIARY ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE EU: 3rd and Final Installment

Dec 23 · INCENDIARY ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE EU: 2nd of 3 Installments

Dec 18 · INCENDIARY ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE EU: 1st Of 3 Installments

Dec 15 · A Follow-Up Exchange on Article 6 on US Exceptionalism (Continued), With A British Visitor

Dec 14 · US EXCEPTIONALISM, The 6th Article On Mistrust of Big Government Continued: Congress vs. Parliamentary Legislatures

Dec 10 · American Exceptionalism: A Follow-Up Exchange on Article 6

Dec 05 · American Exceptionalism: 6th in a Series, Suspicion of Big Government and A Truncated Ideological Spectrum

Nov 28 · American Exceptionalism: Several Differences Set Out In This, The 5th Article In The Series FINAL

Nov 22 · A Highly Gifted Journalist on The Preachers of Hate and Anti-Semitism in the Middle East.

Nov 21 · AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: 4th Article In A Mini-Series

Nov 21 · A Follow-Up: US, EU, Japanese Spending on Higher Education

Nov 19 · Anti-Semitism and the Greek Media and Government: Even Ministers Gobble It Up

Nov 17 · Final Version: US EXCEPTIONALISM, Another Exchange: 3rd in a 5-7 Article Series

Nov 13 · Final: An Exchange on US Exceptionalism. 2nd of 5 Articles In The Mini-Series On That Topic.

Nov 11 · American Exceptionalism: How We Differ From Other Industrial Democracies. 1st of 5 Articles

Nov 02 · WHAT EXPLAINS THE NEW ARAB AND WIDER ISLAMIC JEW-HATRED? 4th of 4 Articles

Nov 01 · WHAT EXPLAINS THE NEW ARAB AND WIDER ISLAMIC JEW-HATRED? 3rd of 4 Articles

Nov 01 · WHAT EXPLAINS THE NEW ARAB AND WIDER ISLAMIC JEW-HATRED? 2nd of 4 Articles

Oct 28 · WHAT EXPLAINS THE NEW ARAB AND WIDER ISLAMIC JEW-HATRED? 1st of 4 Articles

Oct 25 · FINAL VERSION: Radical or Ex-Radical Journalists and Intellectuals Who Have Slammed Fatuous Left-Wing Orthodoxies.

Oct 23 · Final: German Journalists in America Admit To A Systematic Crude Anti-Americanism: Also, Former US Radical Journalists Slam Their Former Colleagues

Oct 22 · WHY ARE FILMS SO CRUMMY THESE DAYS: A SEQUEL

Oct 21 · The Misleading Analogy Between Iraq and Vietnam Continued: II.

Oct 20 · Why Any Comparison Between Iraq Now and the Vietnam War Is Blatantly Misleading

Oct 19 · Progress and Problems in Iraqi Reconstruction Continued, Part II. Not the Final Version

Oct 17 · Progress and Problems in Iraqi Reconstruction, Part I In a Three-Part Series: Final

Oct 13 · Final: WHAT'S HAPPENED TO FILMS? WHY ARE THEY GENERALLY SO BAD THESE DAYS?

Oct 11 · Final Version WHY WERE NUCLEAR BOMBS DROPPED ON JAPAN TO END WWII? Some War Literature and Films To See

Oct 10 · PROBLEMS OF COOPERATION IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Not the Final Version

Oct 08 · Political Science 121: Mid-Term Questions

Oct 06 · HOW THE MEDIA HAVE BADLY MISINTERPRETED THE DAVID KAY REPORT ON IRAQI WMD

Oct 05 · WAS THE IRAQI WAR A BLUNDER?

Oct 04 · Final Version: DID THE US BLUNDER INTO WAR WITH IRAQ? SOME THEORETICAL AND FACTUAL OBSERVATIONS

Oct 02 · Version Three: CHINA'S ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FUTURE Part V: AN EXTRAORDINARILY ILLUMINATING EXCHANGE ELSEWHERE

Sep 29 · FINAL: The Strange Case and Harmful Influence of Edward Said, the Guru of Politically Correct Cultural Studies

Sep 27 · China's Economic Future IV: Fears of Social Strife, Political Protests, and a New Tiananmen Square in Chinese CP Circles As Brakes on Reform. FINAL VERSION

Sep 25 · Second Version: CHINA'S ECONOMIC FUTURE III: THE PIVOTAL CLASH BETWEEN CP AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE LOGIC OF ECONOMIC REFORM

Sep 24 · WILL CHINA'S ECONOMY CATCH UP TO AMERICA'S OR THE THE EU'S? II: Further Reflections

Sep 24 · How Backward is China Today? An Exchange with a Visitor

Sep 24 · Reply to a Visitor: Muslims in France and the Rest of the EU vs. the US

Sep 23 · WILL PACIFIC ASIA OVERTAKE THE WEST IN WEALTH? WILL CHINA BECOME AN ECONOMIC SUPER-POWER? Final Version

Sep 23 · Some Interesting First-Hand Comments From France About The Recent Death-Wave, and the Buggy Response

Sep 22 · Why The Buggy Prof Frequently Lists Different Versions of the Articles Here

Sep 21 · Some Technical Points in the Last Couple of Articles Clarified: Doubts about 1) Crowding Out Theories, 2) Alleged Low US Savings, and 3) Alleged Panic Sell-off by Foreigners of Their US Financial Assets

Sep 19 · Worries About the US Trade Deficit and a Falling Dollar: A Reply to A Visitor's Comment

Sep 18 · Should We Worry About the US Trade Deficit?

Sep 16 · Updated Final Version: A Remarkably Humorous Essay on French and American Stereotypes of One Another, Full of Agile Insights Too

Aug 31 · Off On A Trip, September 1st - 22nd

Aug 30 · The Future of US-EU Relations

Aug 29 · French Foreign Policy: No Fundamental Changes, the One Constant Remaing Anti-Americanism

Aug 26 · THE SHORT-TERM IMPACT OF CHINA'S SOARING TRADE SURPLUS WITH THE USA: Updated Final Version

Aug 24 · THE BUSH-ERA DEFICITS: SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT THEM?

Aug 22 · WHAT CAUSES THE LARGE AND PERSISTENT US TRADE DEFICIT, AND SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT IT. PART 3

Aug 21 · WHAT CAUSES THE LARGE AND PERSISTENT US TRADE DEFICIT, AND SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT IT. PART TWO

Aug 19 · WHAT CAUSES THE LARGE AND PERSISTENT US TRADE DEFICIT, AND SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT IT. And US Crime and Crime Elsewhere: Some Misconceptions

Aug 17 · WHO ARE THE NEO-CONS, AND WHY DO THEY HAVE SUCH INFLUENCE? Part Two

Aug 17 · WHO ARE THE NEO-CONS, AND WHY DO THEY HAVE SUCH INFLUENCE? PART ONE

Aug 16 · IS THE USA AN IMPERIAL POWER IN LATIN AMERICA?

Aug 13 · SOME CURIOUS PROBLEMS WITH CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS OF LABOR PRODUCTIVITY: Especially between the EU and the US. Second Version

Aug 08 · IS ECONOMICS A SCIENCE? CAN IT BE?

Aug 06 · Part III THE US AND LIBERIA: THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN MULTILATERAL INTERVENTIONS IN HUMANITARIAN CONFLICTS: Final Version

Aug 02 · CHINA'S GROWING ECONOMY: A THREAT TO THE US OR AN OPPORTUNITY? Version Three

Aug 02 · THE JOB MARKET AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE EU AND US: A BIG GAP GETTING BIGGER

Jul 31 · Part II, US INTERVENTION IN THE LIBERIAN CIVIL WAR: SOME LESSONS TO BE DRAWN. Final Version

Jul 29 · Part I: US INTERVENTION IN THE LIBERIAN CIVIL WAR: Final

Jul 27 · FOREIGN COMPETITION AND US INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS: IS IT UNFAIR OR HARMFUL FOR THE US?

Jul 26 · Part IV The Prospects of the US Economy: Why The Dangers of Deflation and a Liquidity Trap Are Way Overblown

Jul 25 · A BRILLIANT NOVEL ABOUT VIETNAM AND THE US, AND PROBABLY THE BEST FILM ABOUT THE WAR THERE TOO

Jul 23 · BUSH'S MOTIVES AND JUSTIFICATION FOR DESTROYING SADDAMITE IRAQ. Version One, one more to come

Jul 23 · PART III THE SHORT-TERM PROSPECTS OF THE US ECONOMY: CONCRETE REASONS FOR OPTIMISM. Final Version

Jul 21 · Part II THE PROSPECTS OF THE US ECONOMY CONTINUED: WHY THE ODD JOBLESS RECOVERY SO FAR? Final Version

Jul 20 · THANKS TO A VISITOR, J.F. WILSON, ALMOST ALL THE MISSING BUGGY ARTICLES HAVE ARRIVED

Jul 20 · Part I THE PROSPECTS OF THE US ECONOMY CONTINUED: WHY THE ODD JOBLESS RECOVERY SO FAR? (Final Version)

Jul 18 · LOTS OF BUGGED-OUT POLITICAL-ECONOMY ARTICLES TO COME

Jul 18 · ANYONE HAVE BACK-UP COPIES OF THE BUGGY ARTICLES SINCE APRIL 16TH?

Jul 16 · EXCHANGE WITH A VISITOR ON IRAQ'S WMD AND BUSH (AND BLAIR): ARE DEMOCRATS WISE TO ATTACK BUSH HERE? Final Version

Jul 15 · IRAQ AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: ARE BLAIR AND BUSH AS STUPID AS THEIR WORST CRITICS IMPLY? Final Version

Jul 14 · PLEASE NOTE: ARCHIVES AND ARTICLES SINCE APRIL 18TH MISSING STILL

Jul 14 · BUGGY PROF UP AGAIN: WELCOME BACK!! Archives Missing April 18th - July 13

Apr 18 · A Canadian Citizen Criticizes US Foreign Policy toward Canada and Especially in Latin America: The Buggy Prof Replies

Apr 17 · ISLAM'S PROBLEMS WITH MODERNIZATION: An Updated Exchange with JFM

Apr 15 · Iraq & the Revolution in Military Affairs, Part 7: THE US? AN IMPERIAL VS. HEGEMONIAL STATES VS. A POWERFUL STATE, NOTHING MORE. WHICH IS IT?

Apr 13 · US GLOBAL POWER AND THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS: THE 6TH INSTALLMENT

Apr 13 · REJOINDER TO JFM ON THE DECLINE OF ARAB CREATIVITY AFTER THE 12TH CENTURY

Apr 13 · IRAQ AND THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS: THE FIFTH INSTALLMENT

Apr 12 · [1] THE COALTION OF THE UNWILLING --- AKA, THE COALITION OF THE BILLING --- BALKS AT CANCELING SADDAM'S HUGE DEBTS. [2] EU APPEASEMENT AT HOME AND ABROAD. [3] WHY EUROPEANS FEAR THEIR MUSLIM COMMUNITIES

Apr 10 · THE REVOLUTION IN WARFARE CONTINUED: WHO ELSE CAN IMPLEMENT A DIGITALIZED MILITARY STRATEGY?

Apr 09 · A JOYOUS DAY AS FREEDOM GETS A FOOTHOLD IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND A CAUSE OF PRIDE FOR THE COALITION

Apr 08 · THE ONGOING REALIGMNENT OF STATES SINCE 1991: IN PARTICULAR, THE FUTURE OF THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE

Apr 06 · THE WAR ON IRAQ: A PIVOTAL DEFINING MOMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LIFE. Some Theoretical Comments

Apr 06 · IRAQ AND THE ARAB WORLD'S FUTURE: Best Journalistic Summary of the UN Arab Human Development Report 2002 on the Home-Grown Causes of Arab Backwardness --- political, economic, and knowledge-based

Apr 05 · THE EU APPEASEMENT OF THE CORRUPT, DESPOTIC ARAFAT PA, AND THE BUSH INITIATIVE TO FORCE THE PA TO REFORM

Apr 03 · 1) Palestinians Found to Admire Israeli Democracy. 2) Israel: A Democratic State with a Rule of Law, Unique in the Middle East. 3) Why Israel Is a Rich Advanced Country and the Arab Countries Aren't.

Apr 03 · WHAT ROLE FOR THE UN IN IRAQ AND ELSEWHERE IN THE FUTURE?

Apr 02 · US STRATEGY, MEDIA NONSENSE, FRENCH TV, GERMAN IDIOCY, POLITICALLY CORRECT PROFESSORS WHO SUPPORT SADDAM, EDWARD SAID FLIPPING OUT ONTO FUNNY-FARM TERRAIN

Mar 30 · RICHARD RORTY: SOME ARTICLES ON THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHER OF OUR TIME: And the Only Serious Thinker the New Academic PC-Left Has Produced

Mar 29 · An Hilarious, Hard-Hitting Article To Look At: Mark Steyn

Mar 28 · How Is the War Faring? Some Random Observations

Mar 26 · The War in Iraq So Far: A Brief Analysis

Mar 23 · THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MILITARY REVOLUTION: ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSES: PART TWO

Mar 22 · THE REVOULUTION IN WARFARE: IRAQ AND WAR: WHAT NOW, WHAT NEXT? Part One

Mar 19 · WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO FRANCE OR SHOULD HAPPEN? Queries from readers.

Mar 18 · REFLECTIONS AND PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE IMMINENT WAR WITH SADDAMITE IRAQ

Mar 15 · Stupid Platitudes Repeated by Stupid People or Gullible People or by Calculating Ideologues about the Iraqi Controversy

Mar 12 · Why Continued Containment and Deterrence of Saddam, Besides Not Being Effective, Have Been and Will Be Far More Costly Than A Quick War and Regime Change

Mar 11 · US Angry with Blix. Is He Easily Duped and Misled? Yes, Says a Former Friend and Former Deputy Prime Minister in Sweden: the Wrong Man for the Wrong Job

Mar 10 · The Absurdities of Cultural Relativism If That Means "No Useful Standards of Comparison" for Specific Purposes: For Instance, Which Cultures Encourage or Hinder Economic Development or Political Democracy, and Why?

Mar 10 · Follow-Up: David Horowitz, Noam Chomsky, and Richard Rorty (a gifted philosopher, once associated with the radical left, and now its steadfast enemy)

Mar 10 · Is Noam Chomsky a Good Guide to US Foreign Policy or a Demented Ideologue?

Mar 10 · As a Follow-Up to Our Buggy Commentary on Huntington, the Clash of Civilizations, and Radical Islamist Fundamentalism: Also David Horowitz, the scourge of the PC-Left

Mar 09 · The Dishonest and Strange Mental Worlds of French and German Diplomacy, and The Flight from Reality among the Post-Modernist Radical Avant-Garde

Mar 07 · SAMUEL HUNTINGTON'S CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS: Viewed in Perspective since 9/11 and the Imminent Destruction of Saddamite Iraq

Mar 04 · THE BUSH REVOLUTION IN US FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICIES: Some Queries from Prof. Kent Douglas, and Buzzy Replies

Mar 03 · Best, Easily Accessed Source for Comparing GDP, Productivity, Per Capita Income in the US, EU, Japan

Mar 03 · France, Britain, the US and WWII; also French and American Tussles at Present: From Professor Anthony O'Regan

Mar 03 · From Marc Grossman, Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs --- the No. 3 Man at Our State Department

Mar 02 · FOLLOW-UP ON THE EU, US, ECONOMICS, POWER: A Reply to John

Mar 01 · From a recent visitor to UC Berkeley: The Fatuity and Intellectual Idiocy of Anti-War Protestors

Feb 28 · Query from John: ARE EU WORKERS MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN US WORKERS?

Feb 27 · WHAT AILS THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE AND DIVIDES EUROPE: PART THREE

Feb 24 · WHAT AILS THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE AND DIVIDES EUROPE: PART TWO

Feb 21 · WHAT AILS THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE, AND GENERATES DIVISIONS WITHIN EUROPE ITSELF? A Theoretical Analysis

Feb 17 · Chirac, Finding France Isolated in a EU Summit Meeting, Blows His Top and Lectures Everybody Else

Feb 17 · INTERNATIONAL LAW, MORALITY, AND THE ICC: EXCHANGES WITH THREE OTHERS

Feb 17 · NUTBIN FRENCH ANTI-AMERICANISM RUN WILD --- HYPOCRISY TOO. Or Where Is Inspector CLousseau When We Need Him?

Feb 15 · EUROPEAN OBSEVERS ON FRENCH DUPLICITY AND CHICANERIES AND GERMAN HOTBLOODED MORALIZING AMATEURISM

Feb 14 · Mark Steyn: "It's Not Really About Saddam"

Feb 14 · From Michael Jabbra: SOME CHALLENGING QUESTIONS FOR LEFTIES

Feb 13 · GERMANY'S SELF-RIGHTEOUS "NEW WAY IN FOREIGN POLICY" PROVOKES CRITICISMS FROM EVEN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS AND GREENS

Feb 13 · FRENCH ANTI-AMERICANISM: ALSO FRENCH OIL AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL TIES TO SADDAM HUSSEIN

Feb 12 · EU AND NATO DIVISIONS: A THEORETICAL ACCOUNT

Feb 11 · EXCHANGE WITH BRITISH AND ISRAELI SCHOLARS ON BUSH'S FOREIGN POLICY

Feb 11 · EXCHANGE WITH JOHN NEU ABOUT THE US'S EUROPEAN ALLIES, FOR AND AGAINST BUSH'S POLICIES

Feb 06 · PART TWO: THE US AND ITS EUROPEAN ALLIES IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM: THE DIVISIONS WITHIN NATO EUROPE

Feb 03 · THE US AND ITS EUROPEAN ALLIES IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM: THE DIVISIONS WITHIN NATO EUROPE

Jan 31 · Been Very Busy: Will Start Posting Regularly Again, Probably Monday or So

Jan 28 · A WIDELY TOUTED ARTICLE CRITICAL OF THE BUSH POLICY TOWARD IRAQ:

Jan 26 · FASCISM, ESPECIALLY IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM, CLARIFIED AS A CONCEPT

Jan 24 · From Captain Michael Evans: Follow-Up on "Peace-Marchers or Appeasers?" The Buggy Prof's Reply

Jan 24 · Problems with the Kyoto Treaty and Doubts about Global Warming

Jan 23 · COMMENTS FROM PROF. KENT DOUGLAS: A WAR WITH IRAQ: LIKELY US-UK & SADDAMITE STRATEGY, TACTICS, AND CASUALTIES

Jan 23 · The North Korean Challenge (II): The Historical Background, The Present Threat

Jan 22 · Oxford Ph.D. student and faculty member comments on the web site

Jan 22 · Peace Movement or Appeasement?

Jan 22 · The North Korean Challenge (I)

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