by Charles Cameron | Nov 22, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the DoubleQuote as déjà vu, and as moral contrast and comparison ] . The targeting of innocence seems particularly reprehensible — but in this instance, the Islamic State is only following in the footsteps of the Soviets in...
by Mae Bowen | Aug 6, 2015 | Monitor
Yesterday, President Obama spoke on the Iran deal at American University's School of International Service. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy also delivered a historic foreign policy speech at American University. Just eight months after the Cuban Missile Crisis,...
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 zen | Mar 19, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Lavrenty Beria (center) Russian President and brazen strongman Vladimir Putin reappeared Monday, looking wan and a little uncomfortable for the cameras, but jesting at the mad swirl of internet rumors sparked by his...
by zen | Feb 5, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen“] Stalin: Volume I. Paradoxes of Power 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin I’ve read quite a bit about old Uncle Joe. Most of the major biographies of Stalin sit on my shelf, including those from Adam Ulam, Roy Medvedev, Robert...