Better Living . . .
In times of the omnipresent demon of terrorism, we unfortunately and wrongly despair. Through the apparendy obtuse and absurd, our predicament can be illuminated. It is in that spirit that these...
View ArticleI Have Seen the Past . . . . . . and it Works!
The child who is born – if her parents don’t decide she was just a lustful mistake – only to intuit that her mother and father care more about themselves than their marriage, never mind her. The...
View ArticleWho Died and Made Me God?
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN Marx who first said he saw the clothes bereft of their emperor. Art, culture and religion did not determine the economic relations of the world, but rather it was the other way...
View ArticleDemonizing the Other
HISTORY OF “NATIVISM” IN AMERICA THE DEMONIZATION of minority populations in the United States is an unfortunate, but all too frequent chapter in the continuing narrative of American civil rights...
View ArticleFor Us, She Just Disappeared
SHE HAD CANCER for years, but it wasn’t until that evening that I missed something in her voice life. A few times during our conversation, I asked her how she was faring, but she was anxious instead...
View ArticleHAMAS and FATAH
THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE is generally understood to be an effort to end Israeli colonization and assert the dignity, humanity, and rights of the Palestinian people. As such, Palestinians face one of...
View ArticleReading rubbish
I STEPPED INTO A BORDERS Bookstore a few weeks back. I was very early for an appointment and I thought I’d kill time. I shouldn’t have gone to the Islam section, but of course I did, thinking perhaps...
View ArticleTHOUGHTS ON THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
IN JULY 2007, two hedge funds operated by the investment banking firm Bear Stearns declared bankruptcy. At that time very few people probably thought much of it: after all, investment vehicles lose...
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