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Matthew Duss

Matthew Duss is a foreign policy analyst and a contributing writer for the Prospect. You can follow him on Twitter @mattduss.

Recent Articles

OSAMA'S STEALING MY RIFFS!

Matthew DussSep 11, 2007

OSAMA'S STEALING MY RIFFS! Apparently, in the Sheikh's latest joint, Osama bin Laden quotes from Richard Perle and David Frum's book, An End to Evil. Frum complains that he was misquoted. Let's compare.

Osama:

STRATEGIC VISION.

Matthew DussSep 10, 2007

STRATEGIC VISION. White House homeland security adviser Fran Townsend, commenting on Osama bin Laden's latest video yesterday:

"This is a man on the run in a cave who is virtually impotent other than his ability to get these messages out," Townsend said on CNN's "Late Edition." "It is propaganda."

464 PAGES OF OLD MEN PLEASURING THEMSELVES.

Matthew DussSep 10, 2007

464 PAGES OF OLD MEN PLEASURING THEMSELVES. That would have been a more appropriate title for Peter Beinart’s entirely too-kind review of the new cri de wars by Norman Podhoretz and Michael Ledeen. While Beinart capably dismantles the two mens' war-porn, the review is shot through with his desire to maintain his reputation as a serious, reasonable liberal by treating conservative ideas as if they were serious and reasonable, and Podhoretz's and Ledeen's ideas are neither.

THE TRANSMITTER.

Matthew DussSep 07, 2007

THE TRANSMITTER. William F. Buckley praises Norman Podhoretz's World War IV, in which Rudy Giulani's foreign policy brain essentially argues that we should give bin Laden exactly what he wants, which is a war between Islam and the West.

The Rise and Stall of Van Halen

A new biography of the band that made metal marketable doesn't disappoint the fans, but leaves the serious guitar geeks wanting more.

Matthew DussSep 07, 2007

Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga by Ian Christe (Wiley, 320 pages)

"We play rhythm and blues, shot from cannons." --David Lee Roth

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