by Charles Cameron | Jun 25, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Escher, Mallarmé, Jarry, Macdonald, and Alex Schmid ] . Sources: Stuart Macdonald, entry in “Defining terrorism: an impossible puzzle” contest Stéphane Mallarmé, Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard The DoubleQuote...
by zen | May 5, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] T. Greer of Scholar’s Stage has an exemplary post comparing the philosophy of English social contract theorist Thomas Hobbes with medieval Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, who described a critical component of a...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 3, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a couple of nuances for a sometimes stubborn debate ] . How can #ISIS have "an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will…have to be defeated" (Gen. Dempsey) yet be unIslamic, #Obama? — Timothy Furnish, PhD...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — skip straight to the last three sections if you want the meat without the fruit & nuts ] . I didn’t know that football hooligans were against salafists when I put together this DoubleQuote in a free moment yesterday — I...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a powerful video with strong implications for Israel and keen insight into Gaza — thus far the best I’ve seen ] . The video: I found this video extremely powerful. Lexington Green pointed us to it via a link in a comment on a...
