Russell Seitz

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Russell Seitz is a Fellow of the Department of Physics at Harvard University.


Economy

They Also Serve

They Also Serve

The Occupy movement brags that the parks it seized once hosted Depression-era

Planet Earth

A Vast Mass of Gas

A Vast Mass of Gas

My sometime college classmate and debate judge, Al, has just published a very long rant

Heart of Darkness

A Good Day in Abbottabad

A Good Day in Abbottabad

Though Abbottabad’s eponymous founder might approve of the rough justice OBL received

Lit Crit

The Neocon Lyre

What a Rich Pyre!, by Russell Setiz Being a poem in the style of “Under Which Lyre?” WH

The Godzilla Regata

In 1983, I watched the New York Yacht Club’s 132 year winning streak terminated by an

Hail To The Great She Elephant

In “Just Say No to Billary,” my friend G. Tracy Mehan, III writes that “ If Caroline

The South Has Rose Again

Secessionists,rejoice: no nation outdistances Bolivia in the ferocity of its

Our Man In Zamboanga

His usual venues rendered septic by Press Secretary McClellan’s defection, Robert

The Frum of All Fears

’ Have the Republicans run out of ideas?  ’ asks The New Yorker.  In the current issue

The Crash of 2008

If you think the American economy has its troubles, look at al Qaeda’s operations in

Tobacco & FirearmsAlcohol

Do Try This At Home

The cultural contrast between intriguing guests and apparently brain dead yack TV hosts

The Arsenal Of Time

Taki writes in The Truth About The Good War of“the madness that gripped Versailles, a

Alcohol-Tobacco-Firearms: The Hunt For Red November

The road to the White House often intersects the path of rapidly moving

The Next President Johnson?

TORY !  TORY!  TORY! 43’s New Labour pals went to bed to rest up for Red Ken’s

Beneath The Southern Cross

Bob Ellis, an uberblogger for Australia’s answer to PBS, the Australian Broadcasting

Fire From Heaven

Lit without flame by a solar spark, and consuming mere ounces of fuel a day as it

Relatively Speaking

Helen Rittelmeyer writes that : “The Blame Relativism First choir has good

Threat Deflation

In Leaderless Jihad, former Foreign Service Officer Marc Sageman, now a University of

What al Sweilem party it Is

In what may count as the first wine commercial starring a Wahabi mullah, Omar

The Debate Is Over?

It reflects the state of science on the neocon right that a senior editor of that

Experience hath shewn…

“That even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in

Banned In Frostbite Falls?

Masochistically pounding yet another spike into the forehead of the Canadian psyche,

A Scorcher In The Pews

For better or worse, the question hanging over Senator Obama is: “What would it be like

Let’s Make Smokers History

As the UN’s global jihad against tobacco enters its third decade, it may be time to

Some Intelligence Allowed

This magazine’s   March 31 critique of Intelligent Design’s tabloid science attacks on

Maybe Swiss Re Re Can Help

Ernst & Young and Oxford Analytica have bought into the UN’s view of climate modeling,

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