Book Review - Boeing Versus Airbus
My most recent book review on John Newhouse's Boeing Versus Airbus: the Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business has been published by Asia Times and can be read here.Shanghai Daily Op-Ed
My most recent piece was picked up (w/ the typical translation and political editing as is the case w/ Xinhua) by today's Shanghai Daily. You can read my analysis of the potential for "invisible protectionism" here.Cheney on Why NOT to Invade Iraq
9/11 changed a lot of things, but absolutely none of the perfectly lucid reasons Cheney used in '94 defending why GWB the first did not drive into Iraq.Karl Rove - Master Tactician, Lousy Strategist
Today Andrew Sullivan linked to a David Frum Op-Ed in the NY Times which artfully discussed the conservative movement Rove leaves behind. Frum is a committed conservative as opposed to Rove, who Frum clearly believes is primarily a partisan. As a political strategist, Karl Rove offered a brilliant answer to the wrong question. The question he answered so successfully was a political one: How could Republicans win elections after Bill Clinton steered the Democrats to the center? The question he unfortunately ignored was a policy question: What does the nation need — and how can conservatives achieve it? Mr. Rove answered his chosen question by courting carefully selected constituencies with poll-tested promises: tax cuts for ...Del Posto Restaurant Review
In a new part of my writing, I am adding reviews of food, wine and restaurants. A first on a recent trip to NYC and Mario Batali's restaurant Del Posto follows. The sub-text to Batali’s three star rating is the apocryphal story about Maestro Martino’s, the Italian fifteenth century chef whose cookbook was supposedly taken from Italy to France by Catherine de Medici when she married King Henry II of France. Supposedly this began the process of Italian cuisine being subsumed by French, the aftermath having left Italian chefs then and now with a chip on their shoulder about which cuisine is more authentic and more capable of elevation to the highest of levels. Like all ...About MysteriousFaith
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