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January 29 Public Diplomacy Review

PDPRB ABBREVIATED EDITION"We have become what the privacy theorist Daniel Solove calls 'digital persons.'”--Colin Koopman, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon; image...

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Sochi, the Circassian factor. An important piece

Sochi, the Circassian factorhttp://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Regions-and-countries/Russia/Sochi-the-Circassian-factor-146582ita engMaria Elena Murdaca 28 January 2014Flickr - shootheadMany Circassians...

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January 30 Public Diplomacy Review

A note to readers who receive the Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review  (PDPBR) via buzzfeed (email): "Hotmail" is currently relegating the harmless PDPBR to "junk mail." Such is the reality of our...

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January 30 Public Diplomacy Review

A note to readers who receive the Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review  (PDPBR) via buzzfeed (email): "Hotmail" is currently relegating the harmless PDPBR to "junk mail." Such is the reality of our...

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The 'Tiger Mom' Superiority Complex: Notes for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum?...

Monday, Feb. 03, 2014The 'Tiger Mom' Superiority ComplexBy Suketu Mehta, Time, via MP on FacebookFrom time to time, every Indian American finds an email in his or her inbox, wearing a font of many...

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Civil War Propaganda: The Young White Faces of Slavery

The Young White Faces of Slavery - MARY NIALL MITCHELL, New York TimesFor Northern readers scanning the Jan. 30, 1864, issue of Harper’s Weekly for news from the South, a large engraving on page 69...

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American Football Through Foreign ("Civilized"?) Eyes

If It Happened There: In Brutal Contest of Strength and Strategy, a Culture Is Revealed- Joshua Keating, SlateThe latest installment of a continuing series in which American events are described using...

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A secret American plan to save the Sochi Olympics: Bring on the NFL!

TOP SECRETFROM: The Directorate, CIATO: The President of the United StatesSUBJECT: Sochi OlympicsEXECUTIVE SUMMARY: By Executive Order, illegal or not, POTUS should reschedule the National Football...

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Works of thinkers unknown to many Americans should be made widely available ...

OPINION: A Strategy to Counter Democracy's Global Retreat: Produce inexpensive, good translations of Burke, Locke and other thinkers, and spread the texts widely. By WALTER RUSSELL MEAD, Wall Street...

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France under German Occupation

SeeVia SP on Facebook; image from entry

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Slavery in the Modern World: Notes for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...

The NationPublished on The Nation (http://www.thenation.com)Slavery in the Modern WorldEric Foner | January 28, 2014With this book, David Brion Davis brings to a conclusion one of the towering...

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Is religion losing ground to sports? - Notes for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum?...

Is religion losing ground to sports?By Chris Beneke and Arthur Remillard,  Washington Post Published: January 31Chris Beneke is an associate professor of history at Bentley University and the author of...

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January 31-February 2 Public Diplomacy Review

"Today, the Catholic Church has 1.2 billion members, and so does Facebook."--Peter Sealey, a former marketing director at Coca-Cola and Columbia Pictures, who joined Facebook's board of advisers a few...

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От Древней Руси до Путина

От Древней Руси до ПутинаГазета - Выпуск №9 (via IK on Facebook)Концепция единого учебника по истории готова, сам учебник появится не раньше, чем через 1,5 годаНа недавней встрече Президента России в...

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The End of American Exceptionalism: Notes for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum?...

MAGAZINE The End of American ExceptionalismThe very attributes conservatives say make America special—religiosity, patriotism, and mobility—are ones they've inadvertently undermined. Is it any wonder...

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Ambassador Michael McFaul to Return to U.S. after Olympics: His Facebook...

From Facebook -- [In English below]Пора, мой друг, пора!m_mcfaulЭто мой последний блог в качестве посла США в Российской Федерации. Вскоре после Олимпиады я планирую вернуться к семье в Калифорнию....

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Henninger: Obama's State of Disunion - Notes for a Lecture, "E Pluribus Unum:...

Henninger: Obama's State of Disunion:  His operating method has been social and political division  -  Dan Henninger, Wall Street JournalUpdated Jan. 29, 2014 7:33 p.m. ETThe 2008 campaign phrase "hope...

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Bill O’Reilly’s Obama interview showed a nation still divided: Notes for a...

Bill O’Reilly’s Obama interview showed a nation still divided - By Dana Milbank,  WashingtonPost, Published: February 3Bill O’Reilly’s Super Bowl interview of President Obama was extraordinarily...

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Estrategia y diplomacia pública: el tiempo de la política

Estrategia y diplomacia pública: el tiempo de la política - compolitica.comLa diplomacia pública ha ganado espacio en los estudios de comunicación política internacional en los últimos años. La...

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February 3-5 Public Diplomacy Review

WELCOME TO SOCHI---Caitlin Dewey, "Journalists at Sochi are live-tweeting their hilarious and gross hotel experiences," Washington Post; see also John Brown, "A Secret CIA Plan to Save the Sochi...

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