Diplomats to Kerry: Choose a career professional as next Under Secretary of...
The Honorable John F. KerrySecretary of State Washington DC 20520Dear Mr. Secretary:We urge that a career foreign affairs professional be appointed as the next Under Secretary of State for Public...
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May 21-25 Public Diplomacy Review
"We The Tweeple."--Blogger Piccola Bee, writing about the new social media; image fromDOCUMENTDiplomats to Kerry: Choose a career professional as next Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and...
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On George Kennan: a 2012 review of Gaddis's biography in The American Scholar
(Found on the Web)Big Thinker: The diplomat who argued for “containment”—and lived to regret it [Review of George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis] - James Gibney, American...
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Public/Cultural Diplomacy as a Hot Potato: Foreign Projects Give Afghans...
May 25, 2013Foreign Projects Give Afghans Fashion, Skate Park and Now 10,000 Balloons - Rod Nordland, New York Times[See also Outline an Notes for an Oral Presentation, "Should a Hot Potato Be Funded?...
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May 26-27 Public Diplomacy Review
"The State Department will always be in the propaganda business and will never be in the art business. 'Art' judged from the standpoint of the U.S. Government and its Congressional appropriations,...
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Has American cultural imperialism destroyed the bidet?
Americans Abroad: Hygiene Is Relative - Elisabeth Ladenson, New York TimesElisabeth Ladenson teaches French and comparative literature at Columbia. She is the author of "Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on...
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May 28-30 Public Diplomacy Review
"[N]ever tell a lie which can be discovered.”--Advice from a WWII the Allied Headquarters manual preparing for D-Day "Propaganda is a euphemism for lies; public diplomacy is a euphemism for propaganda;...
View ArticleIs American Cultural Diplomacy a Hot Potato?
Is American Cultural Diplomacy a Hot Potato?John Brown(Note: This paper is a near-final draft that, it is expected, will be published this summer. The author would appreciate comments/criticisms, but...
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May 31 Public Diplomacy Review
"I've had all the fame a man could want."--Painter and ex-president George W. Bush; image from Max Read, "George W. Bush's Art Teacher Says He's Painted 50 Dogs," gawker.comESSAYIs American Cultural...
View ArticlePoland enjoys artistic renaissance 24 years after communism
Poland enjoys artistic renaissance 24 years after communism: Young artists command higher prices as more affluent Poles revive tradition of collecting works - Kate Connolly in Warsaw, guardian.co.uk....
View ArticleGoodbye to Father Greeley, a loving pugilist
Goodbye to Father Greeley, a loving pugilistBy E.J. Dionne Jr., Sunday, June 2, 8:14 PM - Washington PostYou wanted Father Andrew Greeley as your friend and not your enemy. You got the sense he was...
View ArticleAcademics and history
"[T]he academic’s unfortunate tendency to comment on history rather than to tell it."--Max Fisher, who covers foreign affairs at The Washington Post, reviewing the book ‘The Real North Korea’ by Andrei...
View ArticleOne more reason to love America
Joséphine Baker, em cenas de 1927. Canta Joséphine Baker 1949 - via GE on Facebook
View ArticleConflict resolution through cultural diplomacy in the Middle East
Conflict resolution through cultural diplomacy in the Middle EastBy Alan Bakerweb posted June 3, 2013 The Wall Street JournalAddress by Alan Baker to a conference in Istanbul on "Conflict Mediation...
View ArticleApostrophe Catastrophe
Apostrophe Catastrophe"Michael Douglas did not say cunnilingus was the cause of his cancer. It was discussed that oral sex is a suspected cause of certain oral cancers as doctor's in the article point...
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June 3-5 Public Diplomacy Review
"But the terror in Auschwitz did not preclude culture. Kulka tells how he read Crime and Punishment for the first time in the camp."--Jeremy Adler, "From here no one left" [review of Otto Dov Kulka,...
View ArticleDoes Fiction Civilize us?
To the Editor: (New York Times)Re “Does Fiction Civilize Us?” (Sunday Review, June 2):While agreeing with Gregory Currie that there is little evidence linking reading directly to behavior, I do think...
View ArticleWhither the Hatchet Job?
JUNE 1, 2013, 2:33 PMWhither the Hatchet Job?By CLIVE JAMES, New York TimesWatching “High Noon” again the other day, I wondered how postwar British culture ever found the strength to continue...
View ArticleAnd now we have ... Moneyball Diplomacy
State Hosts Tech@State: Moneyball Diplomacy ConferenceU.S. Department of State Hosts Tech@State: Moneyball Diplomacy ConferenceMedia NoteOffice of the SpokespersonWashington, DCJune 5, 2013Share on...
View ArticleJohn Ferguson spreads goodwill for America through the power of music -- and...
The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.comJohn Ferguson spreads goodwill for America through the power of music (via PR)Pianist John Ferguson founded American Voices, a nonprofit whose mission is to...
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