Daniel W. Drezner

A very important post about…. getting the hell away from all of you

Starting this morning, my wife and I will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary in grand style — going on vacation for five days and four nights to a small Caribbean isle that will remain anonymous. The children will not be accompanying us, as their grandmothers will be here to take care of them. None ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast.

Starting this morning, my wife and I will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary in grand style -- going on vacation for five days and four nights to a small Caribbean isle that will remain anonymous. The children will not be accompanying us, as their grandmothers will be here to take care of them. None of you will be coming either. So,until my return, here's a few links that should be worthy of comment... in descending order of seriousness: 1) In the next issue of Foreign Affairs, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have articles articulating their foreign policy visions. Go check them out. I'll be particularly curious to see just how much overlap there is between them. 2) Megan McArdle reads the Social Security Trustee Reports so you don't have to -- and in the process addresses the liberal meme of "every day, in every way, Social Security is getting better and better." 3) James Pethokoukis has a nice survey of expert opinions on the extent to which the Chinese and American economies are intertwined, and what a hard landing in Beijing would mean to the United States. 4) ABC had a hard-hitting story on.... appropriate cleavage in the workplace. Best. Topic. Ever. Hat tip: Ann Althouse, who informs us, "Women know what their breasts look like in their clothes. It doesn't just happen. "Breast power" is real. We can pretend we don't know, but we do." I knew I'd been manipulated all these decades. That is all.

Starting this morning, my wife and I will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary in grand style — going on vacation for five days and four nights to a small Caribbean isle that will remain anonymous. The children will not be accompanying us, as their grandmothers will be here to take care of them. None of you will be coming either. So,until my return, here’s a few links that should be worthy of comment… in descending order of seriousness:

1) In the next issue of Foreign Affairs, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have articles articulating their foreign policy visions. Go check them out. I’ll be particularly curious to see just how much overlap there is between them. 2) Megan McArdle reads the Social Security Trustee Reports so you don’t have to — and in the process addresses the liberal meme of “every day, in every way, Social Security is getting better and better.” 3) James Pethokoukis has a nice survey of expert opinions on the extent to which the Chinese and American economies are intertwined, and what a hard landing in Beijing would mean to the United States. 4) ABC had a hard-hitting story on…. appropriate cleavage in the workplace. Best. Topic. Ever. Hat tip: Ann Althouse, who informs us, “Women know what their breasts look like in their clothes. It doesn’t just happen. “Breast power” is real. We can pretend we don’t know, but we do.” I knew I’d been manipulated all these decades.

That is all.

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner

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