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Grey Anderson, Costly Signals — Sidecar
On the face of it, Kentucky’s 4th congressional district was an unlikely setting for the costliest primary campaign in American history. A safe GOP seat in the state’s north, the constituency runs along the Ohio River from the Cincinnati suburbs to the hill country edging Appalachia, a corridor of bourbon warehouses, evangelical churches, horse pastures and logistics depots. The 55-year-old incumbent, Thomas Massie, was never a conventional Republican.
Grey Anderson, Means and Ends — Sidecar
Skip to main content ‘I hate reviewing books’, the young Zbigniew Brzezinski informed a journal editor in 1960, explaining that he found it ‘debilitating intellectually, demoralizing personally and destructive collegiately’. Might Edward Luce feel the same way? My review in NLR, he complains, gives an ‘inaccurate account’ of his book that reveals a basic ‘misunderstanding of what a biography is meant to do’.
Grey Anderson, Iron-Ass - Sidecar
https://doi.org/10.64590/kvw In January 2022, Richard Bruce Cheney made a surprise appearance on the floor of Congress. His return to Capitol Hill marked the anniversary of the ruckus that briefly delayed certification of election results the previous year. Cheney, accustomed to rough words from his opponents, found himself in an improvised receiving line. ‘No Republicans showed up’, the New York Times recounted, But Democrats in the House, including the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, were effervescent.
Grey Anderson, Iron-Ass - Sidecar
In January 2022, Richard Bruce Cheney made a surprise appearance on the floor of Congress. His return to Capitol Hill marked the anniversary of the ruckus that briefly delayed certification of election results the previous year. Cheney, accustomed to rough words from his opponents, found himself in an improvised receiving line. ‘No Republicans showed up’, the New York Times recounted, But Democrats in the House, including the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, were effervescent.
Grey Anderson, Imperium Uncloaked, NLR 147, May–June 2024
‘The world economy, in terms of both productive capacity and trade, is tripolar—the us, eu and China. But world power remains nearly unipolar. This inherently unstable configuration is the central fact of world politics.’ Such lapidary determinations have become a hallmark of Tom Stevenson’s essays over the past decade in the London Review of Books, where he is a contributing editor.
Grey Anderson, Grander Narratives, NLR 142, July–August 2023
‘There is a new climate of intellectual opinion in France’, a cia analyst reported in 1985, ‘a spirit of anti-Marxism and anti-Sovietism that will make it difficult for anyone to mobilize significant intellectual opposition to us policies.’ The French intelligentsia, since 1945 a bellwether of revolutionary agitation, could henceforth be relied on as a bulwark against it. Two interpretations of this remarkable capsizal dispute the historiography of the period.
NATO Isn’t What It Says It Is
NATO leaders convening this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, have every reason to toast their success. Only four years ago, on the eve of another summit, the organization looked to be in low water; in the words of President Emmanuel Macron of France, it was undergoing nothing short of “brain death”. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the situation has been transformed.
NATO Isn’t Really About Defense, and It Never Was - The New York Times
Guest Essay Credit...Virginia Mayo/Associated Press By Grey Anderson and Thomas Meaney Mr. Anderson is the editor of “Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance Since the Cold War,” to which Mr. Meaney is a contributor. Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. NATO leaders convening this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, have every reason to toast their success.
National Security
Quotes of the Day: 1. Erdogan links Turkey’s European Union bid to Sweden’s NATO hopes 2. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 10, 2023 3. Wagner Leader Prigozhin Met With Putin Days After Aborted Russian Revolt 4. Biden Is Right on Cluster Bombs for Ukraine (WSJ Editorial Board) 5. Opinion | The Flawed Moral Logic of Sending Cluster Munitions to Ukraine (NY Times Editorial Board) 6. Turkey Agrees to Support Sweden’s NATO Bid, Clearing Main Obstacle 7.
Estrategias de negación: Bidenomics, geopolítica, guerra - El Salto - Edición General
Se ha producido un animado debate en la izquierda estadounidense sobre la estrategia industrial seguida por el gobierno de Joe Biden.
Grey Anderson, Strategies of Denial — Sidecar
There has been a lively debate on the American left about the Biden Administration’s industrial strategy.
NATO’s hegemonic formula: Weapon of power, matrix of management
First published at New Left Review. Military alliances, by definition, are an agreement on the use of force against a rival. But this is not their only, or even primary role.1 Ensuring internal order, encouraging commerce and disseminating ideology are additional alliance activities, far from exhaustive.
Grey Anderson, Weapon of Power, Matrix of Management, NLR 140/141, March–June 2023
NATO’s Hegemonic Formula Military alliances, by definition, are an agreement on the use of force against a rival. But this is not their only, or even primary role.footnote1 Ensuring internal order, encouraging commerce and disseminating ideology are additional alliance activities, far from exhaustive.
Esconde esa mentirijilla - El Salto - Edición General
En los Estados Unidos de Joseph Biden abundan los enigmas. Un mes después de su victoria sobre Trump, el presidente electo sufrió una extraña lesión; como él mismo aclaró posteriormente, se había roto el pie al intentar tirar de la cola de un perro mientras salía de la ducha.
Grey Anderson, Hide a Little Lie — Sidecar
Enigmas abound in Joseph Biden’s America. Within a month of his victory over Trump, the president-elect suffered an odd injury; as he later clarified, he had broken his foot attempting to pull a dog’s tail while exiting the shower. Before long the First Family abandoned Major, their German Shepard, after FOIA requests by the conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch uncovered a spree of biting attacks and concomitant White House ‘cover up’.
The French Emergency
Shortly before midnight on November 13, in the aftermath of terrorist attacks that left 130 dead and hundreds more wounded, French President François Hollande declared a national state of emergency. Not long thereafter, the Élysée issued a communiqué detailing its provisions, including the warrantless detention and house arrest of suspects, additional border controls, closure of schools and other public places, and expanded powers of search and seizure.
Bastille Day Is a Military Holiday Out of Donald Trump’s Fantasies
Donald Trump’s attendance at the Bastille Day festivities in Paris on Friday, confirmed at the beginning of the month, has inspired grumbling in France. The American head of state, invited by French President Emmanuel Macron, scores direly in French opinion polls, his approval ratings (around 14 percent) a dispiriting contrast with the adulation showered on Barack Obama.
Bastille Day Is a Military Holiday Out of Donald Trump’s Fantasies
Bastille Day Is a Military Holiday Out of Donald Trump’s Fantasies Donald Trump’s attendance at the Bastille Day festivities in Paris on Friday, confirmed at the beginning of the month, has inspired grumbling in France. The American head of state, invited by French President Emmanuel Macron, scores direly in French opinion polls, his approval ratings (around 14 percent) a dispiriting contrast with the adulation showered on Barack Obama.
Joli Mai
Joy rang out in Europe. The triumph of Emmanuel Macron in the May 7 French presidential election inspired a torrent of front-page effusions from the Brittany to the Elbe. “Well played,” gloated Libération, in tune with Le Figaro’s hallelujah to “Victory on the march.” “France marches into a new era,” echoed the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Slapped across Monday’s Tageszeitung, “Ouf!” captured a prevailing sentiment of relief.
Landscape of Treason
The 2017 election promises to be the most disruptive presidential contest in France in decades. For the first time since 1962, when the direct election of the president was introduced, there is a good chance that neither the Socialist Party (PS) nor the right-wing Republicans (LR, successor to Charles de Gaulle’s Union pour la nouvelle République) will advance a candidate to the second round.
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