Political realities explained

In a Washington Post Op-Ed, neocon Bill Kristol asks:
What about using our national power to help the Burmese people against their tyrannical rulers?
Barbara O’Brien of Mahablog answers: No.  Thanks to supply-siders like Kristol’s father Irving, China holds far too much US debt.  The US cannot afford to antagonise China.  It can hand-wring, but it can’t [...]

Who are these books aimed at? Siegel on “militant atheists”

Lee Siegel asserts that the recent “flurry of literary attacks on God may be closing the book on imagination”. He writes
When our anti-religionists attack the mechanism of religious faith by demanding that our beliefs be underpinned by science, statistics and cold logic, they are, in effect, attacking our right to believe in unseen, unprovable [...]