Monthly Archives: May 2011

via guardian.co.uk Here is an answer to Leslie Gelb’s column at The Daily Beast of this week.

Former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska says uprisings in the Arab world are part of “a global rebalancing” in which the international clout of the United States will be diminished. The war in Afghanistan — the longest in U.S. … Continue reading →

via sup.org I have just read the introduction to Professor Rebecca Comay’s book Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution. I should not have started another book, but the temptation was too great. Professor Comay did not disappoint, her introduction … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-16/israels-dilemma-in-policing-the-palestinian-border-protests/ Opinionator Emeritus (OE) reminds us with every word, of his recent essay, of his contempt, even his unbridled hatred of Palestinians and their aspirations to statehood, as being in the arena of the impossible dream of the benighted, the … Continue reading →

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-16/bernard-henri-lvy-the-dominique-strauss-kahn-i-know/ One is forcefully reminded of two things when reading any essay by BHL: he is living his notion of being the ethical heir to the mantle of ‘The Committed Public Intellectual’ made famous by Jean Paul Sartre, and his … Continue reading →

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-16/israels-palestinian-arab-spring-jews-and-americans-losing-ability-to-shape-mideast/?om_rid=De4wA2&om_mid=_BN0RySB8bL8aQb http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/syria-and-lebanon-border-clashes-are-not-start-of-third-intifada-1.361966 Here are two views of the Nakba observances, demonstrations at the borders of Israel. Are we witnessing a paradigm shift, that storied notion of the great philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, transposed into political terms in the ‘Middle … Continue reading →

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