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Commentary on politics, history, culture, and literature by two Dartmouth graduates and their buddies
WHO WE ARE Chien Wen Kung graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004 and majored in History and English. He is currently a civil servant in Singapore. Someday, he hopes to pursue a PhD in History. John Stevenson graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 with a BA in Government and War and Peace Studies. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He hopes to pursue a career in teaching and research. Kwame A. Holmes did not graduate from Dartmouth. However, after graduating from Florida A+M University in 2003, he began a doctorate in history at the University of Illinois--Urbana Champaign. Having moved to Chicago to write a dissertation on Black-Gay-Urban life in Washington D.C., he attached himself to the leg of John Stevenson and is thrilled to sporadically blog on the Dartmouth Observer. Feel free to email him comments, criticisms, spelling/grammar suggestions. BLOGS/WEBSITES WE READ The American Scene Arts & Letters Daily Agenda Gap Stephen Bainbridge Jack Balkin Becker and Posner Belgravia Dispatch Black Prof The Corner Demosthenes Daniel Drezner Five Rupees Free Dartmouth Galley Slaves Instapundit Mickey Kaus The Little Green Blog Left2Right Joe Malchow Josh Marshall OxBlog Bradford Plumer Political Theory Daily Info Andrew Samwick Right Reason Andrew Seal Andrew Sullivan Supreme Court Blog Tapped Tech Central Station UChicago Law Faculty Blog Volokh Conspiracy Washington Monthly Winds of Change Matthew Yglesias ARCHIVES BOOKS WE'RE READING CW's Books John's Books STUFF Site Feed    |
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Jon, I won't beg for a nomination in public but I do think that all the public intellectuals on this site should cosider the plethera of talent here. Karsten, Laura, me, Anthony, CheinWen, Vijay at least like to debate diversity. Frank Webb has also stepped to the plate so to speak. Also, I wasn't suggesting that we join the nations in their lawlessness. I was suggesting that we ignore the UN. Since a democratic government does not exist over the entire world, and since we are "one nation under God" and not "one nation under the UN", one can not argue that like the "racists, bigots, neo-Nazis, homophobes, and other assorted bozos" the perpetrator nations and assorted collections of crackpot thugocracies should be tolerated as part of the rift raft. The whole point is this: in the international realm, there is no government, no one with a legitimate monopoly of force. Some argue that is should be the UN, and I contend that a monopoly of force should not be given to regimes that have, unlike the "racists, bigots, neo-Nazis, et al.", proved their cruelty and inhumanity. |