[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Crooked Timber's John Quiggin takes a cue from Yemeni instability to wonder what the American relationship with Middle Eastern states should be. (He concludes that controlled disengagement from the doomed regimes is inevitable.)


• Eastern Approaches' author is unimpressed by the ongoing Polish-Lithuanian disputes over the exact position of the latter country's Polish minority, noting that it detracts from the security of both countries.


• The Global Sociology Blog wonders why American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from significantly higher rates of PTSD than their British counterparts.


• GNXP's Razib Khan reports that the recent astonishing statistic claiming that 46% of Mississippi Republicans would like to make interracial marriage illegal is actually quite plausible. Luckily, Mississippi seems to be an extreme outlier even in its region of the United States.


• Slap Upside the Head notes that, in place of gay-straight alliances, Catholic school boards in Ontario have instituted tolerance discussion groups which somehow never get around to discussing homophobia.


• Finally, at the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh observes that an Americna court ruled that a university was well within its First Amendment rights to identify Turkish diasporic group information on the Armenian genocide as unreliable.