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• Ezra Klein
  The best sentences we read today: – “Former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing has revealed he was once jumpe...
  
• Elder of Ziyon
  UN official: "Israeli-Palestinian conflict not less important than Syria crisis": Nice to know that the UN has maintained its sense of proportion. A senior United Nations diplomat...
  
• Harry's Place
  Best wishes to Norm Geras: Norm Geras of normblog, one of the most thoughtful and decent (in the non-sneering sense) people in...
  
• Jeffrey Goldberg
  Signing Off: So, for whatever reason (psychological, I have to assume), I haven't formally signed-off from…&nbs...
  
• Terry Glavin: Chronicles & Dissent
  On Fibbing About Terrorism And Badgering "The Muslims.": From my Ottawa Citizen page. Alan Johnson is quite right, of course. It shouldn't take a couple of...
  
• Two Weeks Notice
  U.S. Influence in Latin America: We need a moratorium on op-eds proclaiming the end of U.S. influence in Latin America. They're usual...
  
• CiF Watch
  Guardian buries the lead about extremists who likely influenced Woolwich terrorist: Yesterday, in a savage terror attack, a British soldier was hacked to death in Woolwich, south-eas...
  
• The Rubin Report
  Egypt and Other Islamist Systems: Will Despair Bring Moderation?: By Barry RubinA colleague wrote me the following thoughts:“As the expert on this issue, may I pose...
  
• The Long War Journal
  Belmokhtar's unit participated in Niger suicide attacks: Al Qaeda commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar. Image from Sahara Media. Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the lead...
  
• Generation Y
  
• Dissent
  Scenes from finals week: Some of us received gifts from grateful students. This one is a brass pen holder whose base is the s...
  
• normblog
  Painting the transition (by Ian Holliday): [At the University of Hong Kong, my friend Ian Holliday is staging an art exhibition, 'Painting the...
  
• Crooked Timber
  Call for Participation: Doctoral Workshop: I’m very excited to be hosting a doctoral workshop this summer on “Developing Best Pract...
  
• Jeff Weintraub
  Henri Barkey suggests that, on Syria, Turkey should put its money where its mouth is: In an interview with NBC News a few weeks ago, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared...
  
• Grasping Reality with Both Hands
  Michael Kinsley's Repeated Factual Errors: Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?: Dan Drezner is sick of trying to reason with Michael Kinsley: >Sometimes a factual error is just...
  
• It's Complicated
  Judith Butler and 9/11 and How We Grieve: It is paradoxical that on 9/11, when we grieve for the victims of an atrocious act of terrorism, Jud...