by Charles Cameron | Jul 27, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — with sympathy for the real, while holding compassion as the ideal ] . ** First, I want to requote two parts of the Times of Israel report titled Netanyahu finally speaks his mind that I quoted a short while ago in my post Israel /...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 24, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which I suggest that reality may be more like a river, our understandings more like canals ] . Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, "Moon of Enlightenment" from One Hundred Views of the Moon ** I read a couple of things this morning that...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — from intuitive leap to confirmation in a celebrated paper by neurophysiologist and cybernetician Warren McCulloch ] . As I mentioned in my earlier post, Close reading, Synoptic- and Sembl-style, for parallels, patterns, there are times...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 14, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — from the Crimea to jihad, via “perhaps the most famous move in the history of go” ] . As usual, my interest here is not in the geo-polemics of the affair, which I leave to others, but in the formal properties of the...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 2, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] At The Bridge, Victor Allen pontificates on R2P (“Responsibility to Protect“) as if it were an established, cardinal point of international law and not a pet theory of a few years vintage pushed by a small but...