by Charles Cameron | Jan 21, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — writing in a very different mode this time — I’m chuffed ] . Today a quasi-science-fictional scenario I wrote for The Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare proect was posted as a “featured entry” in their...
by zen | Aug 29, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] ISIS or the Islamic State “Caliphate” is the focus of a great deal of discussion and demands for action from the United States – and also inaction – from many quarters. What is to be done? That is...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 16, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — still trying to cover some of the major feasts and fasts of the world’s religions in calendar time, which can open on occasion into timelessness — Chag Purim Sameach! ] . Jan Lievens, The Feast of Esther, ca 1625 From the North...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 9, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — leaping as far out of the box from Education: on Engineers, the Navy — and excuse me, Jihad as I can manage ] . Director / Actor Jean Renoir as Octave in Rules of the Game ** Let me dive directly in at the deep end. If, as Keith Oatley...
by zen | Jan 10, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Independent has a short, quasi-sensationalist, article featuring historian Margaret MacMillan discussing what is likely to become the first pop academic cottage industry of 2014….making historical analogies about...