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Billion Dollar Brains: How Wealth Puts Knowledge in its Pocket

From the Vaults II: This is the second article of a series on foundations, academia and their role in Empire-building, first published in 1969. The first article can be read … Continue reading

11 December, 2008 · 1 Comment

From the Vaults: The Foundations Part I

Introducing a new feature: From the Vaults. Here, we aim to highlight significant articles of historical value and contemporary import as they come across the digital desk and that may … Continue reading

11 December, 2008 · 3 Comments

Bill O’Wright

It is good to see a serious, fair and interesting profile of Reverend Jeremiah Wright on Bill Moyers’ PBS Journal program. Moyers looks at the person and his politics, discussing … Continue reading

26 April, 2008 · 4 Comments

Sand’s The Invention of the Diaspora: Shattering a National Mythology?

Tel Aviv University historian, Prof. Shlomo Sand, author of new book Matai ve’ech humtza ha’am hayehudi? (When and How Were the Jewish People Invented?; Resling, in Hebrew) is sure to … Continue reading

24 March, 2008 · 13 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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