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The Passion of the Western Mind

A Norwegian friend and I living in Canberra a few years ago had fun filling up some rare idle time writing lists on a rainy day. Personal top tens such … Continue reading

13 November, 2006 · 2 Comments

Earth. Best before: the Industrial Revolution

Cartoon by Stan Eales, from his wonderful First Book of Eco-Humour As the Chinese symbol for crisis also denotes opportunity, there’s a side of me that looks forward to what … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

The truth about the sword

by CHANDRA MUZAFFAR JUST :: 22 September 2006  It was Albert Einstein who once noted that it is easier to split the atom than to crack a prejudice. One such … Continue reading

11 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Paul Kennedy’s Imperial Overstretch Revisited

Wide-ranging topic coverage in this interview with Paul Kennedy in Al-Ahram … includes commentary on Palestine and Israel, Egypt, Iraq and US Foreign Policy. I remember reading the broad-brush history … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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