by Charles Cameron | May 15, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — squeezed between the space of astronomers and the paradise of the believers, is there yet room for the dancing play of poetry, music and imagination? ] . My first question for you today would be — do you believe in Alice? And further...
by Charles Cameron | May 6, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — you can safely ignore this if you have zero interest in any or all of Bach, Eliot, Christianity and Sufism ] . It’s Sunday evening here, let’s start with Yehudi Menuhin playing Bach — the great Chaconne: ** This post...
by zen | Apr 19, 2013 | Monitor
Another installment of Octavian Manea’s excellent COIN interview series at SWJ. This one focuses on social science and varieties of insurgency: Breaking Down “Hearts and Minds”: The Power of Individual Causal Mechanisms in an Insurgency ….OM: In your...
by zen | Dec 5, 2012 | Monitor
The intense behind the scenes lobbying on behalf of prospective candidates to replace General David Petraeus as Director of the CIA and the ongoing furor over Ambassador Rice’s “talking points” on Benghazi, have spilled over into op-eds quietly...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 22, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — about the (not yet titled) book (or post-book project) i seem to be writing, which offers a grand slam intro to an array of box-free contemplative and artistic approaches to creative thinking, and hence opens fresh angles on intelligence ]...