by Charles Cameron | Dec 27, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the world is not always built to our expectations, eh? ] . Here are a couple of “unexpected consequences” — unexpected in this case because the local context in which they arose isn’t the context that the...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 22, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the camps, theirs and ours, and nuking Mecca, with a pinch of Lynch ] . Here are the reminders.. ** These DoubleQuotes arose in the context of comments by Georgetown Syria specialist Marc Lynch, better known on the web as the blogger Abu...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 18, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — considering both sides, while tilting one way or the other ] . I call it a koan because you can flip it — there are two sides to it, and very possibly a serrated edge that it can balance on, foiling your best efforts to come up with...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 7, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — is empathy really so very strange these days? ] . When I saw this in one of my feeds this morning .. I was strongly reminded of a remark I’ve mentioned before, found in the Talmud, Megillah 10b. R. Johanan is responding to the...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 6, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — from Tractate Sanhedrin and Grotius to Gershon Scholem and the power of names ] . I ran across Yonatan Mendel‘s post, Kill Him First, in the Jewish Quarterly today while searching for the Habrew of the phrase get up early to kill him...
