Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Red-Baiting



Will this still work in 2020? You cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Or can you?

Saturday, February 1, 2020

The Western Punditocracy's Erdogan Obession



The President of Turkey behaves as if he is the leader of an independent, sovereign, nation-state--a fact that alternately baffles and infuriates the Western punditocracy. Here a Guardian columnist offers either some grudging admiration or damnation with faint praise.

There are plenty of grounds upon which to criticize Erdogan, but conducting himself as the head of an independent sovereign nation-state is not one of them.