by zen | Jun 18, 2016 | Monitor
[Mark Safranski / “zen“] Today, I’m pleased to offer a guest post by LtCol. Bob Weimann, USMC (ret.) . Weimann is the former Commanding Officer, Kilo Co., 3/1 and Weapons Company 3/1. He also served as a Marine Security Force Company commanding...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 14, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on the variety of possible motives ] . On twitter alone, there’s far too much going on as we scramble to understand the Orlando massacre for anyone to make a useful summary, although I must say that Rukmini Callimachi‘s twitter...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 23, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a scary thought for a poet, given that “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet / are of imagination all compact” ] . Considering the matter of altered states of consciousness as they relate to terrorism, I’m reminded of one...
by zen | Apr 5, 2016 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski / “zen“] A while back I had a longish post that argued that the mass executions practiced by ISISÂ drew from the long pagan tradition of ritualistic human sacrifice. Today in the news, some social scientists see evidence of human...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 18, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on the necessary simultaneity of temporal and eternal perspectives ] . ** First as to glamour -– it may help to reflect that glamour, our word, comes not from Vogue but from the same origins as grammar (referring to languages) and...