Nixon’s final years as president sucked for Nixon. As the Watergate scandal intensified, the president can hardly be blamed for having reached for a drink. But apparently, the situation was so bad that when Nixon fell victim to growing bouts of insomnia and fits of drunken rage, some Washington insiders started taking bets on when […]
The young man sitting in the waiting room of our neuroimaging facility wearing skinny jeans and trainers…
Imagine This is a brief series about fiction and policy. Works of fiction, because their worlds are…
Almost everyone has heard of Godzilla, even if they’ve never seen a Godzilla movie. What most people…
The temperatures in DC are rising, which means: the interns are coming. Every year, right around the time…
The general stood on the battlefield before his army. He was draped in lion skin with a club in hand. Under a beaming sun touched by the shadows of his 100 thousand men, enemy troops could be forgiven for mistaking him as Hercules incarnate. His men outnumbered 3 to 1 — the general, already celebrated in song as a six-time Olympic…
If you walk to the top of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC, up the grandiose wood spiral…
Almost 104 years ago today, Ottoman forces shattered a young Armenian girl’s life when they entered her…
October, late Autumn in Afghanistan, and the mountains that surround – in fact seem almost to…
As intellectual and cultural milieus go, few compare with Vienna of the late nineteenth and early…
On free afternoons, I write movies about the Middle East. Particularly, the Middle East as it existed…
The biennial Carnegie Nuclear Policy Conference — affectionately known as “Nukefest” — is a…
As the crisis in Venezuela grows, the topic of “regime change” has emerged as part of the discussion.…
Imagine This is a brief series about fiction and policy. Works of fiction, because their worlds are…