Center for Strategic Communication

What it means to live in a secular world

by | Sep 6, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — mind of a skeptic, heart of a devotee ] . I’m heading the post with this video to capture your attention, but recommend you move right past it to the body of the text, and return to it later if and when you have an hour and more to...

Of dark sides and devilish walks

by | Sep 3, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light? ] . Questions: does Cheney‘s “dark side” comment sound less obnoxious when following Franklin Delano Roosevelt‘s “walk...

Elite Failure and Populist Trump It

by | Aug 5, 2015 | Monitor

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] GOP Front Runner, Donald J. Trump A friend sent an essay by the prolific IR scholar, Professor Angelo Codevilla that had been posted at Powerline Blog.  It was good. For the unfamiliar, Codevilla often writes on national...

On sneers, smears, and mutual sniping

by | Jul 31, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — not exactly an enthusiast of negative campaigning ] . I’ve been having a series of conversations with my friend Tom Merino recently, and a couple of days ago he suggested two quotes to me for comparison: I’ve formatted them in...

It’s how we / they roll

by | May 1, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron – neither am I a biker, nor encased in armor ] . ** An ultra-nationalist Russian biker gang is invading Europe, and Poland isn’t happy Not many motorbike groups can claim to have a head of state as a supporter, but the case of Russia’s Night...