by Charles Cameron | Aug 13, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — discussing the Iran deal, Gershom Gorenberg introduces me to some Israeli slang ] . Source: izquotes.com ** Gershom Gorenberg is a friendly acquaintance from Center for Millennial Studies days, and his book The End of Days: Fundamentalism...
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 Charles Cameron | Jan 29, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Ts learn from CTs learn from Ts learn fro.. ] . btw, this is a special format doublequote, yeah? ** Brachman and McCants note in the conclusion to Stealing Al-Qa’ida’s Playbook: Jihadi ideologues closely follow Western thought...
by zen | Sep 4, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Big Brother’s little brothers are listening in on your calls, tapping your data When the government and ruling elites fashion a Creepy-State, it inevitably spawns a surveillance arms race. If your private data is...
by zen | Jul 15, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen’] American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant by Ann Scott Tyson When I first posted that I had received a review copy of American Spartan from Callie, it stirred a vigorous...
