by zen | Mar 6, 2013 | Monitor
Sixty years ago one of the greatest monsters in history, a mass-murderer of tens of millions many times over, the yellow-eyed, “Kremlin mountaineer” breathed his last. We live, deaf to the land beneath us, Ten steps away no one hears our speeches, All we...
by zen | Jan 14, 2013 | Monitor
Friend of the blog, commenter L.C. Rees, likes to point out that one of the most important part of a grand strategy, particularly one that is maintained despite evidence of being a geopolitical failure, are the domestic political effects that work to the advantage of...
by zen | Dec 27, 2012 | Monitor
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg Photo credit: The New York Times Longtime reader and blogfriend Eddie Beaver sent me a link to an article by NYT columnist, Ross Douthat. In my view, Douthat has written a fairly important observation of a political dynamic...
by zen | Oct 6, 2012 | Monitor
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez Shlok Vaidya did an early review of Kill Decision here previously. I finally have caught up to Shlok and I’m ready to add my two cents without giving away any spoilers: First, I enjoyed the book. Kill Decision is a tense,...
by zen | Oct 3, 2012 | Monitor
I was going to comment on the death of the famed historian who was the Soviet Union’s most venerable and shameless apologist, but I was beaten to it in a brilliant piece by British blogger and fellow Chicago Boyz member, Helen Szamuely: A great Communist crime...
