by Charles Cameron | May 31, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — mostly about a fascinating quote from Martin Luther King ] . . Let’s start with the Code of Hammurabi, 196-97: If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. If he break another man’s bone, his bone shall be...
by Charles Cameron | May 19, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — bemused again, “jihad” (the word) in the news, “big data” too, plus Google expecting Mahdi ] . I suppose I should be glad — or should I? — that the word jihad is now in the news. It’s about time....
by zen | May 16, 2013 | Monitor
I have been reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s latest book, Antifragile . It’s a highly intriguing book and I will give it a full review soon, but Taleb’s core concept of antifragility is important and lends itself to wide application. Here’s...
by Lynn C. Rees | Apr 26, 2013 | Monitor
[The views and opinions expressed here are solely the responsibility of Lynn C. Rees. They may not necessarily reflect the official views or opinions of Zenpundit] To deter, Barack Obama has publicly drawn a red line between tolerable and intolerable. We now watch to...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 30, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on blowback, in praise of a Gregory Johnsen post, and literacy ] . William Blake, The Lord Answering Job Out of the Whirlwind. ED Hirsch and Joseph F Kett‘s New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy doesn’t appear to have an entry...
