Joshua’s political and economic briefs

• The cult of commander-in-chief.
• New boss same as the old. Obama leaves Cheney’s apparatus standing. (That’s right: Cheney.)
• Our war-loving foreign-policy community hasn’t gone anywhere. Of course not! Only those who believe bad movies about the late ’60s think the left are for peace. They’ve always been for war ‘for our own good’.
• Moral hazard is back.
• The problem of suburbia.
• CIA torturers running scared.
• Obama and the CIA, parts I and II.