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Monthly Archives: July 2010
July 30, 2010
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Reporting From Pakistan
I’m not much good at timing. I was visiting Jordan on a lecture tour when the Israelis assassinated Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin. Amman closed down and much of my program had to be canceled; Americans weren’t welcome on campuses where … Continue reading
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Israel: A Model for Islamic Democracy
This is my first post at Via Meadia and so, like Damir, I will take a sentence or two to introduce myself. My name is Jonathan Cristol and I am the director of Bard College’s Globalization and International Affairs Program … Continue reading
July 29, 2010
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The West’s Pet Project
I tried to pitch our Editor Adam Garfinkle an article on the Balkans at some point last year. The English translation of former Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY Carla Del Ponte’s memoirs had just been released, and I was trying … Continue reading
July 27, 2010
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The WikiLeaks Phenomenon
The leaking of 92,000 top secret documents by the shadowy WikiLeaks this weekend has the commentariat working overtime. I’ll leave the speculation over the significance of the actual leaked material to more seasoned oracles than me (see, for example, Joe … Continue reading
July 25, 2010
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Literary Weekend: Modernism, Objectivity and American Journalism
Walter’s “Literary Saturday” series of posts is one of my favorite parts of this blog. As a product of the American public school system, where our primary texts were in fact textbooks, I feel like I’ve been catching up to … Continue reading
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A Quick Introduction
Greetings readers and Fans of Mead. My name is Damir Marusic, and I’ll be one of the people contributing to this wonderful blog in Walter’s absence (or better put, reduced presence) during the next two weeks. Working at The American … Continue reading
July 23, 2010
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Posting From Pakistan
During the next two weeks I’ll be visiting Pakistan at the invitation of the US Embassy there. I won’t be there to toe the government line; from time to time US diplomats abroad call on people from many different points … Continue reading
July 22, 2010
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Welcome To Via Meadia
I was waiting to name my blog until the White House came up with a new name for the Conflict Formerly Known As The Global War On Terror (COFKATGWOT); I’ve pretty much given up on that now. We are fighting … Continue reading
July 20, 2010
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Green Dreams Die Ugly On Capitol Hill
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? asked the Roman satirist Juvenal: Who will watch the guards? In our society, we have another question to ask: Who will reform the reformers? As the country sweltered under the hottest three months since record keeping … Continue reading
July 16, 2010
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Nuking Westphalia: Obama’s Deep Convictions Point to War With Iran
In spite of what some conspiracy-minded critics on the right think, mainstream journalists like Time’s Joe Klein do not often agree with Fidel Castro. That both Klein and Castro think the chances of war between the United States and Iran … Continue reading
July 12, 2010
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The Big Green Lie Exposed
As the reports from Dutch and British watchdog panels came in last week, greens hailed what they see as a vindication of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit and the partial rehabilitation of the IPCC, but they are wrong. As … Continue reading
July 11, 2010
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Faith Matters Sunday: The Anglican Crack Up Continues
The disintegration of the world’s third largest Christian ecclesiastical community marches on. (The Roman Catholics with more than a billion members and the 300 million member Greek Orthodox communions are the two largest; the Pentecostal and charismatic movement worldwide is … Continue reading
July 10, 2010
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Literary Saturday: The Roots of the Blogosphere
As regular readers of this space know, I was in London last week and took the opportunity to visit some of the sites associated with some of the important thinkers and writers who shaped the modern world. I visited the … Continue reading
July 9, 2010
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Peter Berger To Blog Religion On TAI
In recent posts I’ve been hinting at new developments at The American Interest Online; I’m happy to share the first of these with you today. Peter Berger, a renowned sociologist, widely considered the world’s leading scholar on the role of … Continue reading
July 8, 2010
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The Last Post
Welcome to my last post; it’s been a great run. This is not the last post I will make on the blog; it’s the last post I have written as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. There … Continue reading
