by zen | Jul 4, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Martin Heidegger, Eric Hobsbawm and Ezra Pound A meandering post inspired by Reason Magazine and Charles Cameron. Reason.com is best known for giving a scrappy libertarian take on current events, crime, technology and pop...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 2, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Phillip Smyth get into role ] . The United States Institute of Peace is holding what it terms a PeaceGame today and tomorrow: The current PeaceGame series is tackling one of the timeliest and most...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 7, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and those black banners again — I’m just curious ] . Judy Clarke, an attorney specializing in death penalty cases, addresses the Tsarnaev jury in the closing statement for the defense: Clarke: The govt. wants...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 28, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a single word in a very small book, and the world that hangs in the balance ] . I’ve just read Hegghammer & Lacroix on The Meccan Rebellion. At 78 pages and 5.3 x 8.3 inches, it’s a tiny book in hardback and quite a delight to...
by zen | Jan 1, 2013 | Monitor
Celebrating the new year by looking at what happened in ’13 way back when….. 2613 BC By some accounts, the construction of the Great Sphinx may have begun 413 BC – The Battle of Syracuse results in a cataclysmic defeat for the Athenian...
