Dive into the archives.
- Kaplan on Religion
I picked up a copy of Robert D. Kaplan’s Balkan Ghosts to read on the upcoming Turkey trip, but I couldn’t resist starting the book last night and came across this rather startling description of Eastern v.s. Western religions in chapter one. The section is too long to blockquote, so I’ll summarize.
Kaplan sees the [...]
- Letter of Apology
Dear Readers,
Recently extra-stringent spam countermeasures were installed at Coming Anarchy, but it has come to my attention that these measures were interfering with real comments. It seems numerous reader replies were being sent swirling into the unknown, unfortunately never to be retrieved. I have thus rolled back our spam measures at Coming Anarchy to where [...]
- Traffic Lights - Thank the UN
Last Friday, Curzon, in his role as “Adjunct Professor” of political science, brought in about 25 students to New York City. Actually, the two TAs organized the logistics and Professor Curzon just sat back and enjoyed the trip, the highlight of which was a tour of the United Nations.
(Enough of the third-person narrative.) [...]
- The would-be king steps down
Ahmed Chalabi has dropped out of the race to be the UIA’s nominee for prime minister of Iraq.
From CTV:
Pressure from within the ranks of the winning United Iraqi Alliance forced the withdrawal of Chalabi, a one-time Pentagon favorite, said Hussein al-Moussawi from the Shiite Political Council, an umbrella group for 38 Shiite parties. “They wanted [...]
- Liberals Against Terrorism
Recently I added the link for liberalsagainsterrorism.com in our list and I thought I would just say a word about them. I found them through Chez Nadezhda a month or so back and have been reading them every day since. The extremely prolific Praktike (he posted 8 times yesterday, plus has his other blog to [...]
- Bloggers UNITE!
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“They won’t let us eat,” Ani said in a hushed voice. “Even if I go into a separate room, I am not allowed. It’s hard…” I knew how she felt. It was the holy month of Ramazan and even though [...]
- Travel Plans Confirmed
After much discussion over the destination and the route, three of us—myself, Dr. Alfred Wallace, and a third friend from law school—have decided to travel to Turkey for a good ten days. After arriving in Ankara we will make our way to Istanbul following an as yet undecided route. That could be direct [...]
- The Hunt for Simpson Tide, or Jimmy’s gotta new boat!
Earlier this week I saw that Simpsons episode when Homer joins the naval reserve and ends up as captain of a submarine (Season 9, Episode 19). Crimson Tide was okay, but this really made me crave “Hunt for Red October”: which I picked up after work today. Brilliant movie. Jack Ryan rules.
Anyways as soon as [...]
- China and the Net
This overview of Chinese political control and the internet has an interesting premise:
The Internet is supposed to herald the end of authoritarian government. And China is supposed to be the test case. But the Chinese Communist Party is adept at blocking Web sites it doesn’t want people to see. Will the Internet play a role [...]
