Intellectuals

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• Fouche on “Libeling Boyd”

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 125
  Joseph Fouche  blasts eminent scholar Dr. Colin S. Gray for doing to strategic theorist John Boyd what Gray’s fellow Clausewitzians complain that Martin van Creveld does to Carl von Clausewitz : Libeling Boyd Contrast this passage with two passages from Gray’s Another Bloody Century ...
  21 hours ago

• UN decries sentencing of Chinese dissident

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  New York, Dec 26 (DPA) The human rights commissioner of the UN Friday expressed concern about the 11-year prison term handed down to a prominent Chinese dissident.“The conviction and extremely harsh sentencing of Liu Xiabo mark a further severe restriction on the scope of freedom of expression in China,” UN High ...
  2 days ago

• All parties come together for Telangana struggle

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Hyderabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Setting aside their differences, all the political parties and various groups in Telangana Thursday came together to launch a united struggle to achieve separate statehood for the region.The Congress, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), the Bharatiya Janata Party ...
  4 days ago

• Book Excerpt: Read from Gumede and Dikeni’s The Poverty of Ideas

  
  Jacana — Authority: 124
  William Gumede and Leslie Dikeni caused quite a stir with the publication of their The Poverty of Ideas: South African Democracy and the Retreat of the Intellectuals . Some have received the book as a timely critique of our democracy whereas other have questioned its main thrusts. Here is an excerpt for those keen ...
  4 days ago

• Gaddis on Grand Strategy

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 125
  Hat tip to Ian!
  4 days ago

• The Human Face of War

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 125
  The Human Face of War  by Dr. Jim Storr An important new book on military theory and history by British defense expert Dr. Jim Storr , a retired Lt. Colonel, King’s Regiment and an instructor at the UK Defence Academy , was reviewed in Joint Forces Quarterly ( hat tip Wilf Owen ) by Col. Clinton ...
  5 days ago

• Commemorating the assassination of YOUSSEF KHORSHID ORANKAY, a Turkmen judge in Mosul

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 135
  It is with great sadness that we commemorate the anniversary of the killing of our cousin, Youssef Khorshid Orankay, six years ago.   On 22nd December 2003 our cousin Youssef, who was an investigating judge in Mosul, was shot several times by ‘unknown gunmen’ as he left his office and was walking ...
  6 days ago

• 1624: Marco Antonio de Dominis, posthumously

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 128
  On this date in 1624, the recently-deceased body of unscrupulous Croatian prelate Marco Antonio de Dominis was burned at Rome’s Campo dei Fiori, along with all his manuscripts. Hypothesizing As a precocious young man Dominis taught mathematics, rhetoric and philosophy; in 1611, he produced a scientific treatise ...
  1 week ago

• Yglesias Reads Weber

  
  French Politics — Authority: 442
  Matt Yglesias, reflecting on the politics of the past few weeks, quotes from passages of Weber that Ive quoted here many times. However, there is an abysmal contrast between conduct that follows the maxim of an ethic of ultimate ends–that is, in religious terms, ‘The Christian does rightly and leaves the ...
  1 week ago

• The year of the nemesis

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  As another year ends, there will be the auditing of how 2009 stacked up against other bygone years. The best that might be said of 2009 for certain is the worst fear of a near-total economic breakdown was either greatly exaggerated, or the world got lucky. Indeed luck, as the myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans had ...
  1 week ago

• Open Letter to Psuedo Intellectuals of Chattering Classes

  
  The Mystic's Muses — Authority: 91
  Don’t you dare let your pride and the glare of the media or fame get into your head so much that you start discouraging concerned real Pakistanis. Stop being a narcissistic fool living in a fake paradise. Stop being a sissy. Stop being a drawing room based, laptop carrying, coffee-sipping ‘patriot’ ‘liberal’ ...
  1 week ago

• Guest Post: Cameron on Millenarianism and the Paranoid Style

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 125
  Charles Cameron has been guest blogging here in a series on radical Islamism and terrorism and is now branching out in to more general posts that touch upon apocalyptic or esoteric religious movements.. A former researcher with the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, his most recent ...
  1 week ago

• Something the French Do, Something the Irish Did: Notes on the Audience for Philosophy and Poetry

  
  Samizdat Blog — Authority: 106
  A few years ago I found myself running late for dinner with my wife, parents, and friends in Paris. As I came careening gracelessly around a corner of the Place du Panthéon, I came damn close to knocking over a sort of glamorous looking guy who was being interviewed by a small television crew. I muttered my "Je ...
  1 week ago

• Compassionate Conservatism Comes to France

  
  French Politics — Authority: 442
  Jean-François Copé, who thinks about becoming president whether hes shaving, showering, or moonlighting in corporate law, is thinking of taking up the "compassionate conservatism" theme . Apparently hes under the impression that it was invented by the British Tories. Or maybe he just wants everyone to forget that ...
  1 week ago

• Development and Quality: Reply to Agile Diary

  
  Disparate — Authority: 99
  Former WiZiQ product manager Vikrama Dhiman responded to one of my tweets with a full-blown blogpost, thereby giving support to  Matt Mullenweg ’s point that microblogging goes hand-in-hand with “macroblogging.” My tweet: enjoys draft æsthetics yet wishes more developers would release stable ...
  1 week ago

• A Second “Second Sex”

  
  The Paris Blog — Authority: 131
  Anglophone feminists, rejoice! The new English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpiece  The Second Sex  was published in the UK this week by Jonathan Cape (with the American edition set for publication by Knopf in April 2010). Viewed by many as feminism’s foundational text, Gallimard published  The ...
  1 week ago

• And in This Corner ...

  
  French Politics — Authority: 442
  I confess I didnt have the patience to read all of this, but if a slugfest between heavyweight professional provocateurs is your thing, here is Badiou vs. Finkielkraut on the national identity question.
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• Friends in High Places

  
  French Politics — Authority: 442
  Via Causeur I learn that Carla Bruni has a homeless friend, Denis, with whom she chats about "books and music." As it happens, Ive just finished translating the chapter on "the politics of presence" in Pierre Rosanvallons latest book, La légitimité démocratique . There couldnt be a better illustration of ...
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• We Laugh Because it is Funny but also Because it is True: The Weakness of the Historical Method

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 125
  This amusing videoclip makes the same point that my polymathic amigo Dave Schuler likes to make about the true state of historiography about classical    antiquity : I will now let Dave speak for himself: ….Take the example of a single book, Plato’s Republic . The book was written in something ...
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• Death of a Privatiser

  
  Russia — Authority: 109
  Like James Dean, Yegor Gaidar lived hard and died young. But unlike Dean, the only victim of whose reckless driving was himself, the man who privatised Russia’s economy in the 1990s took his entire young country on a deadly joyride that wrecked millions of lives. That’s no hyperbole: The Lancet has ...
  1 week ago

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