Quiggin on Egypt

Over at Crooked Timber (here), the always thoughtful John Quiggin explores large, important, and very complex questions arising from the developing political situation in Egypt. The questions he raises, by themselves, are reminders to beware of the instant analyses and simplistic advice coming from the editorial pages of US newspapers.

Some of that advice could turn out to be correct, but there is little reason to believe that the the authors have either amassed and digested all of the significant facts or worked through in sufficient detail the long-run implications of alternative US positions.