by Charles Cameron | Jun 23, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the Holland Tunnel arrest and the beat poet’s Howl — a note on semiotics ] . A Dodge SUV registered to Higher Ground Tactical sits in the Port Authority impound yard near the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City on June 21, 2016....
by Charles Cameron | Apr 21, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — two manifestations of the extreme right in Israel ] . ** I don’t think too many people will argue that deliberately burning famiies in their homes is less than brutal. My question to ponder here is how brutal human-on-human violence...
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 | Nov 20, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — CJ Chivers, nuclear nonsense, faux chemistry, and the alchemical imagination, with hat-tip to Cheryl Rofer ] . CJ Chivers, conflict journalist extraordinaire and author of a book about the Kalashnikov assault rifle, The Gun, today posted a...
by zen | Oct 7, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen“] “And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.” – Leviticus 18:21 “They rejected the commandments of the Lord … and...
