by Charles Cameron | Jan 22, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — is this one of those times when life is imitating art, maybe? ] . ** In the upper panel, we have the headline of an article from the Pakistani Express Tribune of January 2nd this year, along with their image of Army chief General Raheel...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 5, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — these caught my eye recently on the Aussie Lowy Interpreter site — an upcoming movie, Nasrallah on IS / Daesh, and Rugby diplomacy, NZ-style ] . This looks to be a film that may be of interest to ZP readers: Perhaps Zen and others...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 28, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Nina Paley is as strong an argument as I know both for the idea that individual genius exists, and (not so paradoxically) that it arises OTSOG — “On the shoulders of giants” as Robert Merton has it ] . It’s always a...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — John Boyd in pop culture ] . I have just gotten access to Generation Kill, the HBO miniseries about the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, Marine Corps, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and was accordingly surprised to stumble across this...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 3, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the public square, that is, and specifically Tahrir Square ] . The Square, directed by Jehane Noujaim — a documentary tracking the lives of six people in Tahrir Square through the two recent Egyptian revolutions — just won the...
