by Charles Cameron | May 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — with Wagner and Abu Dujana as examples, the cognitive sting here is in the tail — the power of a double image to engage both emotion and insight ] . Love and death. ** The human mind thinks in parallelisms and oppositions. My lords,...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 15, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — fast cars, bumper stickers — and no mention of loose women ] . — I’m not a member of the Baader-Mainhof gang. The sentence that drives my title is this one, from How BMW Became A Terrorist Icon In The 1970s (And How It...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 8, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — not just “thinking outside the box” — how about upending the whole thing and seeing what shakes out? ] . FWIW, this isn't the world, nor is it upside down — it's just a rather different map, eh?. A...
by zen | Nov 27, 2012 | Monitor
Scott Shipman had an excellent book review post An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 — a review-lite and a few questions in which he discussed the intellectual seriousness and evolution of war planner Major Albert C. Wedemeyer...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 22, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — sincerity and symmetry as the basis for dialog and negotiation ] . . If you read me regularly, you know I’m passionate about form as well as content. Here’s the New York Times report on the interactions between Presidents Obama...
