I’m catching up on my reading while on spring break (which is jokingly called “spring pause” at DePaul.) Yesterday I read William Cronon’s “From the President” column in February’s Perspectives magazine. Cronon, who was just installed as the President of the American Historical Association, is a brilliant scholar and innovative thinker, so it seems fitting [...]
All posts for the month March, 2012
Wikis and Footnotes
Posted by admin on March 23, 2012
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But War is not Clean
A terrible war atrocity occurred in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan this weekend, when a U.S. Army sergeant went door-to-door killing at least 16 civilians. But it’s actually the public’s response to the news that surprises me the most, and the cause for that speaks poorly of our chance to live in a peaceful world. [...]
Posted by admin on March 12, 2012
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Iran and a Nation’s Covenant
Yesterday I finished reading Pat Barker’s Regeneration, a fictionalized account of Siegfried Sassoon’s pacifist declaration against the Great War and his negotiated treatment for neurasthenia in Craiglockhart hospital. The Great War earned its name partly because of the tremendous failure of diplomacy that led to its inception, the stunning failure of strategy that accompanied an [...]
Posted by admin on March 9, 2012
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2012/03/iran-and-a-nations-covenant/
Tactical Problems with #Occupy
When Occupy Wall St. made its splash last fall, a lot of pundits were comparing it to the Arab Spring based on its diffuse structure, strength from palpable unrest, and embrace of social media. Although the group made it clear they did not have a political agenda, their “We are the 99%” motto reflected a [...]
Posted by admin on March 3, 2012
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2012/03/tactical-problems-with-occupy/