Trade policy, crazy conservatives, and UFOs
I have no idea what the three things in my post title have in common. All I know is that this morning I checked out my primer of U.S. trade policy at Amazon.com and discovered the following five books under the “Customers who bought items like this also bought” category: F.U.B.A.R.: America’s Right-Wing Nightmare by ...
I have no idea what the three things in my post title have in common. All I know is that this morning I checked out my primer of U.S. trade policy at Amazon.com and discovered the following five books under the "Customers who bought items like this also bought" category: F.U.B.A.R.: America's Right-Wing Nightmare by Sam Seder The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West by Joel Achenbach Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... Where Is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to Fermi's Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Stephen Webb Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility, and Transgenic Beings by Budd Hopkins Readers are warmly encouraged to explain this set of rather odd correlations.
I have no idea what the three things in my post title have in common. All I know is that this morning I checked out my primer of U.S. trade policy at Amazon.com and discovered the following five books under the “Customers who bought items like this also bought” category:
F.U.B.A.R.: America’s Right-Wing Nightmare by Sam Seder The Grand Idea: George Washington’s Potomac and the Race to the West by Joel Achenbach Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens… Where Is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to Fermi’s Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Stephen Webb Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility, and Transgenic Beings by Budd Hopkins
Readers are warmly encouraged to explain this set of rather odd correlations.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and the author of The Ideas Industry. Twitter: @dandrezner
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