How to Be a Very Serious Person

—By Kevin Drum

| Wed Jul. 22, 2009 11:23 AM PDT

If you want to be a Very Serious Person in the foreign policy wonk community, Stephen Walt lays out the rules of the road here.  I'm not sure he's correct about #5 and #6, but the others sound about right.  Via Dan Drezner.

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