Articles By: Peter Bacon

Peter Bacon / September 17, 2010 3:46 pm

Defense Spending

Defense spending has become a target for many seeking to reduce the budget deficit.

Peter Bacon / November 7, 2009 7:40 pm

Ghosts of Peace Prizes Past

Obama would do well to learn from the post-Oslo experiences of two other Presidents The Nobel Prize Committee’s recent decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama touched off a firestorm across the world. Reactions have ranged from rancor from much from the right wing for the supposed lack of justification, to delight from the American left and ... Read More

Peter Bacon / May 24, 2009 3:39 am

Things to Come

George Friedman’s geopolitical prophecy The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century is a book that admits it will not get everything right. The author George Friedman, founder of the private intelligence firm STRATFOR, takes up the prophet’s mantle and tells us what the 21st century might look like. His contentions seem, at first glance, fantastic: in 2050, ... Read More

Peter Bacon / March 4, 2009 1:31 am

The Original Culture War

Rewriting the history of the Civil War

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