Comments on: Review: Still Broken by AJ Rossmiller

By: Review: Still Broken

Review: Still Broken — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:02:53 +0000

[...] to the Pentagon. There have been a few posts giving it strong praise so far: Matt Yglesias, Jill at Feministe, and I expect there to be many more as people pick it from book stores. AJ himself has a great [...]

By: Katherine

Katherine — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:10:11 +0000

I was thinking exactly the same thing as Bellatrys. But even given the passage of time and a lot of historical analysis and hindsight, you’ll still find people here in the UK bigging up the fact that “we” gave “them” the railways. So that’s alright then!

By: Matt Browner Hamlin

Matt Browner Hamlin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:00:46 +0000

Great review Jill. I finished Still Broken tonight and will try to work up a review tomorrow if I can. There are a couple points that you make here that I’d like to respond to or at least add to.

But, in short, it’s a great book and I highly recommend it. It’s very disquieting but I think AJ does a great job, as you note, of not projecting motives on the people he works with even while describing a profoundly dysfunctional system.

By: Bitter Scribe

Bitter Scribe — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:38:35 +0000

Every jerk who sneers at “applying criminal law to terrorists” should be set to reading this book like a schoolboy.

By: bellatrys

bellatrys — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:27:53 +0000

This sounds no different from the abuses committed by the British upon prisoners and others in India in the 19th and early 20th centuries, resulting in the Mutiny and ultimately, the end of the Raj as those foolish natives refused to understand how much they benefitted from being ruled from London…

Why do we insist on believing we’re Exceptional?