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April 15, 2013
The life’s work of Jacques Derrida, often referred to by the name “deconstruction,” advanced a new way of reading. Emphasizing the deferral...
February 21, 2013
In the Lufthansa in-flight magazine I had read a story about the German Aeropace Center in Göttingen. Founded in 1907, the center had...
February 7, 2013
All indicators are pointing to a looming sectarian civil war on Iraq’s horizon. It is possible to avoid this civil war, but so far, the...
January 28, 2013
Rape is not exceptional but routine in most parts of the world. The fact that a twenty-three-year-old student, Jyoti, was brutally gang...
January 1, 2013
The recent Hollywood release of the musical Les Misérables invites a renewed opportunity to question the relationship between capitalism...
December 7, 2012
I managed to avoid Veterans Day for most of my life, but a few years ago the college where I teach began organizing an annual Veterans Day...
November 1, 2012
“In their housing developments they placed first, broken bottles on top of their walls, then, barriers and armed guards, barbed wire, bars...
October 15, 2012
Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally...
October 6, 2012
Sunday, October 7, marks six years since Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in her apartment elevator. The assailant shot her four times,...
September 10, 2012
A young nurse in Aleppo’s Dar Al-Shifa hospital methodically turned the pages of her massive notebook, giving me names of people killed and...
August 15, 2012
There were chants, chants… and chants, scattered around each corner of Tahrir. The revolution was in check while politics were playing out...
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