by Lynn C. Rees | Oct 15, 2014 | Monitor
[pre-acknowledged by Lynn C. Rees] Meet Edward Mandell House: Mr. House has a reputation for being wise and inscrutable. He was also nicknamed “Colonel” House. We need not refer to him by that nickname here. While Mr. House did have a name, he never...
by zen | Aug 4, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Orientalist by Tom Reiss Some biographies are as much about the era or the milieu as the man. The Orientalist is one of them. This is not to say that Tom Reiss has written a bad book. On the contrary, it is an...
by zen | Jul 8, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] I have a new piece up at the excellent War on the Rocks site that is oriented towards both history and contemporary policy Some Excerpts: A New Nixon Doctrine: Strategy for a Polycentric World ….Asia was only the...
by zen | May 11, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War by Steven Pressfield This just arrived hot off the presses on my doorstep yesterday, courtesy of Steve and in terms of writing, The Lion’s Gate appears to...
by Charles Cameron | May 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how, where and why the name, the map, and the flag merge into reality — Gregory Bateson to the rescue ] . I am indebted for this screengrab to Phillip Smyth, whose recent Singing Hizballah’s Tune in Manama: Why Are Bahrain’s...
