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What We Are Reading

Key Reads   San Bernardino Shooting Investigation: Past Plot and Recent Loan are Latest Clues Greg Botelho, Catherine E. Shoichet, Pamela Brown / CNN Investigators believe shooter Syed Rizwan Farook may have been plotting an earlier attack in California with...

What We Are Reading

Key Reads   Syrian air strikes kill 31, rebels bombard Damascus: monitor John Davison and Naline Malla / Reuters Syrian government air strikes on rebel-held areas near Damascus killed at least 31 people on Wednesday, and insurgents bombarded the capital with...

What We Are Reading

  Key Reads   American Security Project Launches Business Council for American Security Maggie Feldman-Piltch / American Security Project American Security Project announces the launch of The Business Council for American Security (BCAS). The Council will be...

Intellectuals and their Romance with Political Barbarism

[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...