September 11, 2001

The Continuing Crises

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2022
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy (Clark)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2022
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Kolbert)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2021
Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring Sanity to Our Politics, Our Economy, and Our Lives (Heath)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2021
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy (Nichols)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2021
Eight movies about nuclear disaster, genocide and refugees
Ebola, and Mongol Modernity
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2019
The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Risings Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts (Gaul)
Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores (Pilkey and Pilkey)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2019
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Tooze)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2017
A Political Economy of American Hegemony: Buildups, Booms, and Busts (Oatley)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2016
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon (Brooks)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2016
Twilight of the Elites (Hayes)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2015
Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses — and Misuses — of History (Eichengreen)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2015
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century (Caryl)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2015
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (Shadid)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2014
American Coup (Arkin)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2012
Games Without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan (Ansary)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2011
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State (Priest and Arkin)
Supporting the Demonstrations in Wisconsin
Reflections on the Revolutions in North Africa
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2010
McLean and Nocera on the financial crisis of 2007--
Social Carbon Banditry
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2010
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2010
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2010
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Reich)
The Republic Hath Need of Thee
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2010
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2009
Because You Really Wished I'd Write More About Books
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2009
Idle Question of the Day
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2009
Ghost Peaks, Buried in Ice
An Undertaking of Great Advantage, But Nobody to Know What It Is
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2008
A Note to My Alma Mater
Assorted Link Roundup, May 2008
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2008
May Day 2008: Strike Against the War
Career Advising Day
Aleister Crowley: Grandfather of the Beast?
"The object of torture is torture"
The Khaldun Option
In Case You Were Feeling Too Cheerful
They have made their budget, now let them enforce it
"I Deeply Resent The Way This Administration Makes Me Feel Like a Nutbar Conspiacy Theorist"
Shorter Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Analogous Partitions or Alphabetical Provocation?
"Ceterum censeo, Carthago delenda est" (Saturday Classical Precedent Blogging)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2005
Understanding Terror Networks (Sageman)
"The Case for Building an Afghan Auxiliary Military Force"
Let Me Be Among the First to Welcome Our New Orbital Cybernetic Zombie Overlords!
Korean Dutch Book
Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise (Episodes from the Babylonian Captivity of the Republic)
Yet More Political Data Analysis (or: "There you go, bringing class into it again")
It Came from the Cartogram
Decided and Divided Americas
The Long March
"It has already produced immense cataclysms, and will no doubt produce others in the future" (Uncle Bertie Joins the Reality-Based Community)
Always Gibber, Gibber, Gibber, Eh, Dr. Shalizi?
Believing in the Will
Joan Didion Is Elegantly Shrill; or, "What rough beast, its hour come round at last..."
It's Going to Be Just Like the Old Country
Legalizing Torture
The Dead in Gallipoli, and in Iraq
Today's Depressingly-Likely Spam Subject Line
Millennium, Modernity and Shrillness
Objectivists for Kerry!
Shrill, Shrill, Shrill (with a Will)
Assorted Reading
The Rectification of Names
Persecution and the Art of Neoconservative Writing
More Assorted Reading
Clark on American Hegemony
Decentralized Malevolence
Hey, Sarge, Why Are They Shooting At Us with American Guns?
Re-Elect Gore in 2004!
A Modest Proposal, or Maximizing Birds per Stone
There Is Much Ruin in a Nation; or, Novus Ordo Seclorum
Our Geopolitical Situation, Dispassionately Assessed
Today's snippets
This Is Going to Be Fun
News from Tartary
De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace
"The Pentagon has some explaining to do"
Short Takes
"Naked Power, Arbitrary Rule"
"Unjust, unwise, un-American"
Another Reason I'm Glad I'm Not a Social Scientist
Listen to Him
The Fiscal Crisis of the State
Even the Conservative William Safire
2001 and All That
Not My Antiwar, Thank You Very Much
Cheap Shot Before Departing
How to Be a Responsible Physicist
How Not to Be a Responsible Physicist
Chomsky and Zinn on The Fellowship of the Ring, or, "Can't you see the violence inherent in the subcreation?"
Compare and Contrast
Their Markets and Ours
Malawi Revisited
Letter to a Friend in Boston, or, Why Are We Ruled By These Idiots, Part 437?
Kurdish Betrayals; a Fifth International?
It was a free country, wasn't it?
Civilization Fell While I Wasn't Looking

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