Monthly Archives: January 2011

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An Arab Spring? PARIS – Is Tunisia the first Arab authoritarian domino to fall? Or is it a unique case that should not be viewed as a precedent for either the Arab world in general or the Maghreb in particular? … Continue reading →

    2011-01-25   Globalization Marches On LONDON – In a recent symposium in the Financial Times on globalization’s prospects in 2011, the columnist Gideon Rachman observed that, “When Barack Obama visited India recently, the US President warned his hosts … Continue reading →

Holy neurons- The Times Literary Supplement, January 21, 2011 p. 25 Review by Jonathan Benthall Conceiving God David Lewis-Williams The cognitive origin and evolution of religion 320 pp. Thames and Hudson   ‘Lewis –Williams and other militant atheists of liberal … Continue reading →

His daughter, Jordy Bell, confirmed the death. Mr. Bell’s output was prodigious and his range enormous. His major lines of inquiry included the failures of socialism in America, the exhaustion of modern culture and the transformation of capitalism from an … Continue reading →

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/opinion/25brooks.html?ref=davidbrooks Cockeyed Platonist (CP) like the Establishment Republican, Paul Ryan and the Tea Party’s Michele Bachmann has decided to give his own version of national political sermonizing called the State of the Union Address. Now there is nothing to compare … Continue reading →

via guardian.co.uk The American Likudniks, Neo-Conservatives and their political allies continue to inveigh against Palestinian intransigence, while pretending that they await ‘good faith negotiation’ as a precondition for a settlement: a mirage that recedes into the historical distance: the obscene … Continue reading →

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