by Charles Cameron | Sep 20, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — at the intersection of zero-sum and non-zero sum games ] . And the hands-down winner is — opening today’s Washington Post to the op-ed page — President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, who says: The world has changed....
by Charles Cameron | Jun 5, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on end-times rhetoric and having no need of sun or moon ] . Detail from a Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liebana ** On the whole, the “signs of the end times” described in the installment of Maulana Asim Umar‘s...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 17, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — iconoclasm, Iranian style ] . From AP today: Iran confiscates Buddha statues from shops. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – An Iranian newspaper is reporting that government authorities are confiscating Buddha statues from shops in Tehran to stop...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 18, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — destruction of sacred spaces ] . Do we grieve the destruction of the Abbey of Monte Cassino as we grieve the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas? ** With playful and appropriate scholarly tongue-in-cheek, Umberto Eco describes the...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 18, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on play, games, vertigo and koan — technically this is a ludibrium, a jeu, a jest — a dervish whirl for the mind ] . . I’m joining the conversation Jane McGonigal is leading over on Big Questions Online — our topic...
