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May 28-29 Public Diplomacy Review

"If you want to irritate a professor of philosophy, you should corner one at at a party and confront him or her with the momentous question of the very meaning of life."--Professor Crispin Sartwell,...

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Overheard: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States...

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Book Review: 'Strange Glory' by Charles Marsh

Book Review: 'Strange Glory' by Charles MarshDietrich Bonhoeffer was a man of contradictions—and his theology the essential response to modernity.By CHRISTIAN WIMAN, Wall Street JournalMay 30, 2014...

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Why Putin Says Russia Is Exceptional: Such claims have often heralded...

Why Putin Says Russia Is Exceptional: Such claims have often heralded aggression abroad and harsh crackdowns at home. LEON ARON, Wall Street JournalMay 30, 2014 2:16 p.m. ETTim O'BrienIn the winter of...

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The Art Hitler Hated

New York Review of BooksThe Art Hitler HatedMichael KimmelmanJUNE 19, 2014 ISSUEDegenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York City, March...

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"Engagement" and public diplomacy

As is quite well known (see, item one) "engagement" is (or at least was, for several years) the Obama administration's favorite buzzword to describe what the USA should to interact effectively with...

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More drones, less literacy

L.A. drones: LAPD gets new UAVs to combat crime - Kellan Howel, The Washington Times [ca. 1:00 pm, 5/31/2014]: The Los Angeles Police Department announced Friday it had added two “unmanned aerial...

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Buzzwords ...

As I compile, for my sins (which are many), the Public Diplomacy Review, I become more and whore aware of buzzwords. Here's a recent public-diplomacy related item, containing words that are, in...

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May 30-31 Public Diplomacy Review

"we need to untether our employees from their desks"--Heather Higginbottom, Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. State Department; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYTeachers and the Transatlantic Relationship -...

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A Phone Call (Please pass to Edward Snowden)

As then U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul [see] often faced hostile treatment at the hands of Mr. Putin's government. One day in 2012, he says, he was surprised to get a call from Mrs. Clinton...

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America dumbs down

America dumbs down: The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind? - Jonathon Gatehouse, macleans.ca, May 15,...

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From the Scientific American (June 2014)

p. 12: "the fossil record tells us that climate change is the planet's 'normal' state."p. 12 "More than 99 percent of the species that have ever lived are extinct."p. 14: "The next time you walk past a...

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Business School, Disrupted

Business School, DisruptedBy JERRY USEEM MAY 31, 2014The New York TimesIf any institution is equipped to handle questions of strategy, it is Harvard Business School, whose professors have coined so...

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The West Through Russian Eyes?

from; via FacebookЖизнь в Англии. Как они одеваются (32 фото)На выходных недалеко от Ливерпуля проходили традиционные скачки. Событие знаковое, особенно для женщин. Надевают самое лучшее сразу. Даже...

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June 1 Public Diplomacy Review

"- Некоторые говорят, что и со стороны Запада идет пропаганда... - В США это называется общественной дипломатией (public diplomacy). Мы не делаем ее в достаточном количестве, честно говоря.""- Some say...

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VOA Programming is Now Available in U.S. by Mobile Phone

From Via ACP on FacebookJune 02, 2014 Washington DC 6:10 AMMedia Relations / Press ReleasesVOA Programming is Now Available in U.S. by Mobile PhonePrintShare:Left to right: George Cernat (Chief...

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Not your grandpa’s inequality: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...

FromRobert J. SamuelsonOpinion WriterNot your grandpa’s inequality98Share to FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInAdd to PersonalPostShare via EmailPrint ArticleMoreBy Robert J. Samuelson,...

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June 2 Public Diplomacy Review

“(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied. So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.”...

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Collection of photographs of Norman Rockwell in Russia under Library of...

ASK A LIBRARIANDIGITAL COLLECTIONSLIBRARY CATALOGSSearchSuggestions enabled.GOLibrary of Congress > Prints & Photographs Reading Room > Prints & Photographs Online Catalog > Search...

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