Yglesias Award Nominee

"To dismiss concerns over an Iranian bomb as poppycock or warmongering by neocons seems extremely unfair and, yes, tendentious in the extreme. As academics, observers and journalists, we ought to be able to draw opposing conclusions about Iran’s nuclear program without attacking each other’s motivations and accusing one or another faction of being appeasers and Iran apologists on one hand or warmongering neocons agents of Netanyahu on the other… [W]hile it’s fair to say that the United States is much to blame for its bungled Iran policy since the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty, Iran is not exactly an innocent victim of American imperialism," – Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation.