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Catalonia and Europe’s Identity Crisis 18 Sep 2012 | 05:59 am
This space has been quasi-dormant for a bit, but for anyone checking in, I have a new post up at The Smoke-Filled Room about the recent rally in Barcelona and what it means for Europe’s crises of weal...
And As Their Desperation Grows . . . 4 Jun 2012 | 10:36 pm
I recently co-published an article in The Huffington Post about the views of Syrian revolutionaries on the issue of international intervention. Drawing our data primarily from Arabic social media sour...
Looking Forward, Not Backward in Ancient Rome 10 May 2012 | 07:15 am
Glenn Greenwald has a great post over at Salon about the modern lessons of the Cataline Conspiracy and Julius Caesar’s unsuccessful attempt to prevent the conspirators’ extrajudicial execution. Greenw...
Brief Thought on Television Debates 3 May 2012 | 04:01 am
Posting has been basically non-existent as the semester has piled project upon project in a compressed period of time. Quasi-regular blogging should return soon. There was a brief televised “debate” ...
Ethnic Hierarchies: Differences in Degree vs. Kind 28 Mar 2012 | 11:30 am
I’m annoyed with Benjamin Netanyahu. He’s taken an irritating and inexplicably-popular American phrase about ducks and moved it into meme territory. It’s only a matter of time before some nostalgic gu...
Egyptian Democracy Sacrificed On Altar of Obama Re-Election 25 Mar 2012 | 05:45 am
From The New York Times, March 23d. An intense debate within the Obama administration over resuming military assistance to Egypt, which in the end was approved Friday by Secretary of State Hillary Ro...
The Internal Contradictions of E.U. Identity Construction 13 Mar 2012 | 01:56 am
There’s been a flap this week about an ad produced by the European Commission touting the benefits of E.U. enlargement. Watch: The video draws on the martial arts film genre, and shows a woman wearin...
Thoughts on Obama’s Iran Interview 3 Mar 2012 | 09:30 am
For those who haven’t already, I’d encourage readers to check out Jeffrey Goldberg’s interview with President Obama published this morning over at the Atlantic. Whatever one thinks of Goldberg, he get...
Note: AIDS is not Karma 1 Mar 2012 | 12:38 pm
Yesterday, perusing the Washington Post, I ran across this fascinating article/excerpt from Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin on the origins of the HIV epidemic. Read the piece; it’s genuinely interes...
Disillusionment and Elite Discourse 22 Feb 2012 | 01:47 pm
Twice in my life I have been genuinely disillusioned by politics. I’ve been disappointed by politics more times than I care to count. For a progressive in a reactionary age, political disappointment b...
