Wednesday Morning Linkage

by Daniel Nexon on 2013-01-02 in Duck- 1 Comment

Saudia Arabia seeks water in Ethiopia with violent consequences. Via Laleh Khalili.
“Morsi and the Deep State.”
The case for the US continuing a hard line against Cuba.
First-image explanations for US strategic failure.
Walt’s “Top 5 parties in World History” should include instead the celebration of the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis rather than “The Fields of the Cloth of Gold.”
On SFF books that authors “didn’t love.”
Classicists and reception studies.

And also:

How important is blogging for academia? Extremely important, say Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson.
A petition to the White Houe aims to ban the construction of Death Stars.
“World War I is the war of poetry and literature.”
Andrew Yeo discusses a magisterial work of unparalleled brilliance — and not a few historical howlers.

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The FP blog sites seem to be having some technical difficulties at the moment — at any rate, I can’t access S. Walt. The other possibility is that this is their response to my having written them an admittedly rather unpleasant note a few days ago about their new sign-in policy — but though a bit nasty, b.c I was annoyed, it wasn’t unhinged or anything and I don’t think it would warrant this sort of individualized retaliation, assuming it’s even technically possible. (File under: The Internet and the construction of paranoia :))