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		<title>Frank Miller&#8217;s Geostrategic Theory</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/frank-millers-geostrategic-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Lovece sat down with Frank Miller for Newsday to discuss his upcoming film The Spirit. Toward the end of it Lovece asked Miller about remarks he&#8217;d made in 2007 in support of the Iraq War, and offered him an &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/frank-millers-geostrategic-theory/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NATO Protection only for Perfection?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/nato-protection-only-for-perfection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Harrowell reminds us that NATO wasn&#8217;t always so timorous about conflict risk exposure: [I]f we assume that Georgia, and specifically Mikhail Saakashvili’s version of it, wasn’t sufficiently responsible (adult, civilised, possibly even white?) to play, how do we explain &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/nato-protection-only-for-perfection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving International Opposition</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/achieving-international-opposition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Traub has written a magnificent survey of the events leading up to the current war in Georgia, and the personal contest between Mikheil Saakashvili and Putin. Of particular interest to me was this paragraph: What is striking, though, is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/achieving-international-opposition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Speaks to Europe</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/mccain-speaks-to-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Chris Dunn Spiegel has a typically aggressive (and aggressively European) interview with John McCain today. In many ways it&#8217;s an interesting yet disappointing exercise, due to its focus on the perceived past sins of the Bush administration. While much &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/mccain-speaks-to-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting the Death of Germany</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/04/fighting-the-death-of-germany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[75% of Germans believe that their society is hostile to children. That&#8217;s a toxic attitude to combine with an appalling 1.3 children-per-woman fertility rate. Well below the replacement rate, the country is literally dying out over time. To attack the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/04/fighting-the-death-of-germany/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Scale of the American Economy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/20/the-scale-of-the-american-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click to enlarge I thought the map Lance posted from the other day (originally from Strange Maps), which expressed the GDP of foreign countries as US states, based on their approximate equivalent GSP, was a pretty interesting visualization. However, I &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/20/the-scale-of-the-american-economy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gay and Grey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe&#8217;s first gay nursing home has opened in Berlin. The separatist initiative apparently has some appeal: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t like to be in a heterosexual environment all the time,&#8221; one applicant says.]]></description>
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		<title>Germany in the Black&#8230;for Now</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/germany-in-the-blackfor-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germany has finally balanced its budget after 38 years of failure. The cause is an export driven 2006-2007 boom. What constitutes an economic boom in Germany these days? 2.5% annual GDP growth. Quite a decline by the standard of West &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/germany-in-the-blackfor-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Apparently, in France, demand curves do not slope downwards&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/11/apparently-in-france-demand-curves-do-not-slope-downwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Megan McArdle comments on a piece in The Economist regarding the appalling state of economics education in France and Germany: When the 35 hour work week was proposed, I was talking to someone in the French consulate who did economics &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/11/apparently-in-france-demand-curves-do-not-slope-downwards/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/08/liberal-fascism-the-secret-history-of-the-american-left-from-mussolini-to-the-politics-of-meaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Echoing a wonderful discussion we had in the fall of 2006 on the nature of Fascism (see here, here and here) Jonah Goldberg writes a book which bristles at the use of the term by the contemporary left. I would &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/08/liberal-fascism-the-secret-history-of-the-american-left-from-mussolini-to-the-politics-of-meaning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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