links for 2007-06-19 Spencer Ackerman: General Taguba and Secretary Rumsfeld Eric Alterman: My Marty Peretz Problem -- And Ours: He bought The New Republic in 1974 and sold it this February. In between, he transformed America's most influential liberal weekly: Today, it is no longer as influential, or liberal, or even weekly. Kotsko: Falsifiability and Theology Peter Hitchens: [I]n Israel itself – not even counting the occupied Arab zones of the West Bank and Gaza – the most popular boy’s name is now Muhammad. Whiskyfire: If your “underlying beliefs or theories” made you stick your d--- in the blender, even “reluctantly,” and you haven’t thoroughly reassessed these concepts, I frankly don’t want to hear your advice about what to do with the weed wha Glenn Greenwald: A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency Jonathan Glover: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century