Samar Abu Elouf’s harrowing work in Gaza has garnered critical acclaim. But that’s not why she does it GAZA casualties, live statistics Photographs by Samar Abu Elouf / Story by Alaa Elassar, CNN The first thing Samar Abu Elouf does before photographing a dead child is make sure it isn’t one of her own. Feelings… Read More ‘This is worth dying for’
Though I was never in the U.S. military, my life experience has been American wars, wars, wars, and more wars. I was born during World War II. I was in grade school when the Korean War took place. I still have a faint memory of a photo of a gleaming American soldier’s face from that… Read More Juan Cole, Another American War in the Middle East?
Readers who are parents might be forgiven for thinking that Alice Munro who blamed her abused daughter for her husband’s paedophilia was a sociopath whose condition might have a bearing on her books. (Alice Munro claimed her daughter was lying about being abused by stepfather) Mukul Kesavan A year and a half ago, while moving… Read More Life and Fiction
NB: The entire spectrum of Indian politics was represented at the Ambani wedding, – an obscene spectacle of wealth ongoing for several months in a country marked by extreme economic disparity. As the chart below shows, Indian big business has been at the forefront of spreading hatred to promote our ruling dispensation. This is untrammelled… Read More Money, politics, and hypocrisy
GAZA casualties, live statistics By Andre Damon The Lancet, the prestigious peer-reviewed British medical journal, has warned that the true death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 or more. This staggering figure amounts to 8 percent of the population of Gaza. A similar percentage of the US population would be 26 million people. It stands as… Read More Lancet warns Gaza death toll could be over 186,000
First posted October 06, 2012 Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan. Edited by Noel Malcolm. Oxford University Press; 2,355 pages WHEN Thomas Hobbes was maths tutor to the future English king, Charles II, in Paris in 1646, his young charge reportedly found Britain’s first great modern philosopher to be “the oddest fellow he ever met with”. That was one of… Read More After more than 350 years, the first critical edition of Hobbes’s ‘Leviathan’
First posted July 12, 2013 The Romance Between Greece and the East, edited by Tim Whitmarsh and Stuart Thomson, 2013. Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization by Bruce Thornton, 2002 Reviewed by Charlotte Higgins If you walk through the entrance hall of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, you come to a large display case devoted to the… Read More Ancient Greece, the Middle East and an ancient cultural internet
First posted February 28, 2014 In Culture and the Death of God he deploys all his formidable skills to explain how the high hopes of many generations of secular materialists collapsed along with the twin towers. Culture and the Death of God – Terry Eagletonreviewed by Jonathan Rée Atheism is in trouble, according to Terry Eagleton. Throughout the 20th century it… Read More Culture and the Death of God: Terry Eagleton
First posted July 06, 2012 As one distraught friend of mine once prayed: ‘May Allah save Islam from Pakistan.’ The self-claimed ‘bastion of Islam’ has gradually mutated into becoming a bastion of deluded messiahs and mindless, violent ranting machines to whom anything, from incoherent malangs to the reopening of Nato supply routes, are conspiracies against Islam. On… Read More EXIT GOD, ENTER MADNESS: Nadeem Paracha on religious extremism in Pakistan (2012)
Husserl’s well-tended archive has given him a rich afterlife, while Nietzsche’s was distorted by his axe-grinding sister Peter Salmon I have a terrible fear that I shall one day be pronounced holy: from Ecce Homo; by Friedrich Nietzsche On the morning of 24 September 1938, a Franciscan priest by the name of Herman Van Breda… Read More Paper trails
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