by Charles Cameron | Mar 19, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — trying out a new look for DoubleQuotes ] . I’m aware that testifying under oath when questioned on a specific topic by Congress is different from promoting a presidential candidate at a campaign rally — but even so, the...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — contrasting perspectives, asymmetric warfare, and a bible story ] . Art Spiegelman, the creator of the acclaimed graphic treatment of the Holocaust, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, has now posted a visual DoubleQuote of his own, along with...
by zen | Aug 6, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen”] John Robb had a cool post on the ultra-radical takfiri insurgency ISIS/ISIL and their self-proclaimed Sunni “Caliphate“, the Islamic State, whom he gave as an example of “the cockroaches of war”:...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 20, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — “hatred of the other” viewed as a cognitive matter, and Richard Landes on the capacity for self-criticism ] . Credit: Amir Schiby ** Nicholas Kristof has a post today for the NYT Sunday Review, Who’s Right and Wrong in the...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 12, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — what does it mean to give a balanced view of an asymmetric conflict — when the asymmetry may be as much moral as material, pragmatic as idealistic, as viewed from either side of the fray? ] . The phrase “a fair and balanced...
