by zen | Mar 4, 2016 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski / “zen“] The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security by Bartholomew Sparrow In writing The Strategist, Bartholomew Sparrow has demonstrated that his talents as a biographer match his skill as a scholar. Cautious...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 25, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on Graeme Wood’s latest, the goals of IS, and geographic slippage ] . Graeme Wood, who wrote the Atlantic piece that broke the apocalyptic side of the Islamic State’s ideology wide open in March of last year, has a related...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jan 25, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Not long after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan various versions of the following joke circulated in Moscow: An American and a Soviet were comparing notes about their respective modes of travel. The Soviet asked the American how he got the...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jan 6, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis After the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, the Russian Federation was left with much of its territory but far fewer of its ethnic minorities. Within Russia, most minority regions became republics along the lines of those lost. At the time,...
by zen | Dec 28, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] My usual yuletide haul of books received and purchased…. The Last of the President’s Men by Bob Woodward Being Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern...
