by zen | Sep 14, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] One of the signs that the Westphalian state system was approaching its zenith was the gradual extinction of legal private warfare in Europe (and in America , east of the frontier). While this trend predated the French...
by zen | Jul 4, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Martin Heidegger, Eric Hobsbawm and Ezra Pound A meandering post inspired by Reason Magazine and Charles Cameron. Reason.com is best known for giving a scrappy libertarian take on current events, crime, technology and pop...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 22, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis I was skeptical about the durability of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement when I first saw the news of its signing. It seemed to be too good to be true. The bitter civil war between the Ulster government and the IRA that had engulfed Northern...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 8, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis I spent Memorial Day morning at the ceremony at the Veteran’s National Cemetery in Santa Fe, New Mexico which honored America’s service men and women who gave their lives fighting for this country as well as those who became disabled as a result....
by T. Greer | Jun 5, 2015 | Monitor
This post is the second in a series. It was originally published at The Scholar’s Stage on the 26th of May, 2015. I strongly recommended readers start with the first post in this series, which introduces the purpose and methods of this essay. That post focused...
