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Ayan Hirsi Ali At The CSM: 'Swiss Ban On Minarets Was A Vote For Tolerance And Inclusion'
Full piece here. Rather than see the vote as a failure to allow Muslims their religious freedoms (populist response to the immigration wave?), Hirsi Ali suggests the ban rather should be thought of, i… more →
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Ayan Hirsi Ali At The CSM: 'Swiss Ban On Minarets Was A Vote For Tolerance And Inclusion'
chr1 wrote 8 hours ago: Full piece here. Rather than see the vote as a failure to allow Muslims their religious freedoms (po … more →
William Finnegan At The New Yorker: 'Gone South'
chr1 wrote 1 day ago: Full piece here. The administration and very few people in the U.S. have handled the Zelaya/Honduras … more →
From NPR: Richard Holbrooke-'Strong Support For Afghanistan'
chr1 wrote 1 day ago: Full interview here (audio and transcript included). While he points out that there may be the broad … more →
Audio from the Meyer-Sternberg vs Shermer-Prothero debate
Wintery Knight wrote 2 days ago: Posted by Brian Auten at Apologetics 315. Full MP3 is here Please bookmark Brian’s blog, and f … more →
Repost-Revisting Larry Summers: What Did He Say Again?
chr1 wrote 3 days ago: He may have been fired for many reasons, but Summers off-the-cuff Remarks at NBER Conference on Dive … more →
Review of the Meyer-Sternberg vs Shermer-Prothero debate
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Wintery Knight wrote 4 days ago: UPDATE: The audio is here. This review was e-mailed to me by a friend who attended the debate. I … more →
From The Associated Press: The Text Of Obama's Afghanistan Speech, December 1st, 2009
chr1 wrote 4 days ago: Full speech here. Worth a careful read. Here’s what’s likely the main reason Obama … more →
From Althouse: 'The Atrocity That Is Empire State Plaza'
chr1 wrote 1 week ago: Full post here. (with photos) Of course, it may not be an atrocity in your opinion (and could be qui … more →
Denialism: Science and Public Debate
Benjamin Steele wrote 1 week ago: I’ve just come across the name of Michael Specter. He has received some attention lately beca … more →
Nicolas Lemann At The Chronicle Of Higher Ed: 'Journalism Schools Can Push Coverage Beyond Breaking News'
chr1 wrote 1 week ago: Full article here. As you may have noticed, the economic models that sustained traditional media are … more →
Leslie Gelb At The Daily Beast: 'The Secret Details Of Obama's Afghan Plan'
chr1 wrote 1 week ago: Full post here. On the ’secret details’ of what will likely be the new Obama plan: … more →
MISUNDERSTANDING MAO
The Editor wrote 1 week ago: The ANC seems obsessed with the Mao quote about a letting a hundred flowers blossom. Whenever there … more →
Synthetic Biology Event @ LSE
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Angela wrote 1 week ago: Source: nature (as in the journal…) Tomorrow (26 November 2009), the London School of Economic … more →
From Ambinder At The Atlantic: 'The New U.S. Ally In Afghanistan'
chr1 wrote 1 week ago: Full post here. Not all Afghans are Pashtun, and most Taliban are Pashtuns, so potentially you could … more →
Buddhism and the media
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questionbeggar wrote 1 week ago: I’m reading a book about Buddhism, and one of the principles that is explained is the idea (so … more →
From The NY Times Via The A & L Daily: 'Who Fears a Free Mikhail Khodorkovsky?'
chr1 wrote 2 weeks ago: Full article here. So how is the old state apparatus faring in Russia during the Putin clampdown, an … more →
From KeithHenessey.Com: 'The House-Passed Bill’s Effects On Health Insurance Coverage'
chr1 wrote 2 weeks ago: Full post here. Surely you trust our government to control health-care costs by potentially extendin … more →
From The Virginia Quarterly Review Via A & L Daily: 'Sixty Hours Of Terror'
chr1 wrote 2 weeks ago: Full article here. A harrowing, detailed account of the Mumbai terror attacks. … more →
Youtube Via Foreign Affairs: Zbigniew Brzezinski Discusses NATO And Foreign Policy
chr1 wrote 2 weeks ago: The Council On Foreign Relations presented the talk, and the link at Foreign Affairs can be found he … more →
