- Mearsheimer and Walt on theory and empirics on international relations scholarship. Steve Saideman and Phil Schrodt respond.
- Horrifying stories from former Dolphins star Jason Taylor.
- The strategic miscalculations of the Obama administration viz. a horse-sized duck. (Hat tip to Bill Bianco.)
- This made the rounds a while back, but just in case you didn’t see it: The One Article Everyone Will Want to Cite.
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If I somehow conjured a duck, scaled up to horse-sized, out of thin air, wouldn’t it just stare puzzled at me for a half-second and try to say “Oh no, not again,” at which point its legs snapped like twigs and it collapsed to an agonized mass of muscle and breaking bones until its own weight suffocated it?
Yes. Well, it might be able to breathe, but I’m sure it couldn’t walk or fly.
See the delightful essay On Being the Right Size by J.B.S. Haldane. One of Haldane’s arguments is summarized in verse here.