by Charles Cameron | Sep 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how a half-baked, re-raked tale from 2007, now showing on my local Facebook, gets things all wrong ] . Let’s set the record straight. It seems that Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times did the amplification in this case. He...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 15, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — keeping up with the branding thing ] . A hat tip to Aymenn Al-Tamimi for each of these two images: Sources: above, a car with Islamic State of Iraq & ash-Sham branding below, an Islamic State of Iraq & ash-Sham police car ** And in...
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 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 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...
