by Charles Cameron | May 3, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — I got the announcement via Cole Bunzel, and Kévin Jackson kindly informed me that Dr Fadl is currently free ] . Dr Fadl‘s announcement, in Arabic, is here — I had to use Google Translate, which wouldn’t pass a Turing...
by zen | May 1, 2013 | Monitor
My friend Dave Schuler who blogs at the excellent The Glittering Eye and on foreign policy at Dr. James Joyner’s Outside the Beltway , queried me as to what I thought of the Boston Bombers in light of the concept of the Superempowered Individual. For those not...
by zen | Feb 13, 2013 | Monitor
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson This is a fun book by the former editor-in-chief of WIRED , author of The Long Tail and the co-founder of 3D Robotics, Chris Anderson. Part pop culture, part tech-optimist futurism and all DIY business book,...
by zen | Jan 14, 2013 | Monitor
Friend of the blog, commenter L.C. Rees, likes to point out that one of the most important part of a grand strategy, particularly one that is maintained despite evidence of being a geopolitical failure, are the domestic political effects that work to the advantage of...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 7, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — growth and mainstreaming of Rebuild the Temple movements in Israel, parallels with perceived slights against the Prophet of Islam, volatility of the situation ] . You saw the New York Times headline, New Clashes at Site in Jerusalem Holy...