chicken little
“I can calculate the movement of the stars, but NOT the madness of men.”...
Category Archives: in other words
the madman
(Few have understood the Middle East and it’s people like Lebanese-born poet and scholar,...
1701
With ink still drying on the UN Security Council’s draft resolution, Nusrullah has finally...
breakpoint
Often referred to as a ‘private CIA,’ Stratfor just released an update on their...
charlie rose
Below is a transcript of the Charlie Rose interview with Rami Khoury, Editor-at-Large of...
the lexus and the olive tree
An engaging fictional dialogue between former Secretary of State Warren Christopher and former Syrian...
shock and awe
(No history of any region is impartial and no telling of events ever objective,...
a golden summer
An article on Slate.com from another American journalist with no desire to leave the...
orientalism redux
Few scholars have had such a profound impact on their field of study as...
natural selection
(for a quintessentially New York experience — and a flattering nod for the walrus...
freedom fighters
(sorverignty and legacy are often difficult values to defend, particulary when small arms are...
20/20
In light of the grand sociopolitical developments over the last eight years, this speech...
no better way
Described as the first direct communication from an Iranian leader to an American president...
a star is made
(more on the lighter side of advanced statistical heuristics, from America’s preeminant econo-literary duo)...
1982
“Year after year, economic theorists continue to produce scores of mathematical models and to...
when a fact is not a fact
How can you compare the human body to an athletic shoe? Or worse still,...
lowest common denominator
(one of the more innovative pieces of spam to grace my junkmail in recent...
talk to you never
(too-good-to-be-true funny, but not quite suitable for “milder” comic sensibilities…) From: ...
a critic at large
(Gladwell on Harvard, and the preferential science of America’s ruling academic “élite”. At times...
santa claus vs. mr. danger
(provided to the rational readership as a primer on south american politics and its...