To Russia, With Tough Love by Masha Gessen - A must read on Russia
via KDSUNDAY BOOK REVIEW | LITERARY LANDSCAPESTo Russia, With Tough LoveBy MASHA GESSEN, New York Times NOV. 25, 2014Dear Moscow,This is a “Dear John” letter. You have had so little interest in the...
View ArticleRELEASE OF FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, PUBLIC DIPLOMACY,...
Via BKU.S.Department of StateSee also (a) “Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy": A Select Annotated Bibliography" (b) "Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public...
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Stalin, Father of Ukraine?
THE OPINION PAGES | OPED CONTRIBUTORStalin, Father of Ukraine?By STEPHEN KOTKIN NOV. 27, 2014, New York TimesEight years ago, on Nov. 28, 2006, the Ukrainian Parliament officially designated the...
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Manufacturing the Manufacturing of Consent
From patrickiber.blogspot.comIn 2012, I published a large review essay in the journal Istor of several books on the subject of war and public opinion (link here, everything is available for free in...
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Democracy at Work ... Hillary Clinton gets 300K to open her mouth at UCLA.
From The Washington PostPlans for UCLA visit give rare glimpse into Hillary Clinton’s paid speaking careerImage fromBy Rosalind S. Helderman and Philip Rucker November 26 When officials at the...
View ArticleAn Irony in American History ...
On September 24 [1862], just two days after he issued the Preliminary Proclamation [on Emancipation], Lincoln issued a second order, Proclamation 94, suspending habeas corpus for the entire...
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Lincoln's Executive Order, The Emancipation Proclamation - Note for a...
From: Todd Brewster, Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months That Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War (2014) [Presentation on video by the...
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Millennials Love Transit Most, Boomers Still Stuck on Cars
from: citylab.comA new study shows generations bucking their upbringings, with sheltered Millennials choosing the bus.SARAH GOODYEAR @buttermilk1 Sep 18, 2014 56 Comments1.9kSharesShare on...
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Short-listed entry for The Incomprehensibility Prize (from The Times Literary...
J.C., TLS, November 14, 2014, p. 36:The following entry in OUP [Oxford University Press]'s Literature: New and noteworthy titles catalogue is among the short-listed entries. It advertises Repetition...
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Redefining the American Dream: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
From: nefe.orgSurvey: Redefining the American DreamNearly Half of U.S. Adults Say Top Financial Goal is RetirementDate: August 22, 2011Contact: Paul Golden 303-224-3514, pdg@nefe.orgDENVER—For some,...
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A key article on the tragic situation in Ukraine: "We Have no homeland:...
Guy Archer shared a link.1 hr ·'We have no homeland': Ukraine dissolves as exiles fleeThe Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international...
View ArticleThe Retreat to Identity: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
New York TimesThe Retreat to IdentityNOV. 29, 2014Ross DouthatLAST summer, around the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, I wrote a column making — gingerly — a case for...
View ArticleI wonder what this sounds like in English ...
From David Winters, "Vanishing acts" [review of Cathy Caruth, Literature in the Ashes of History], The Times Literary Supplement (November 14, 2014), p. 26:So, trauma conveys a kind of philosophical...
View ArticleEnglish for Americans: Encouraged but not required. Note for a lecture, "E...
Editorial, Los Angeles TimesEnglish for Americans: Encouraged but not requiredThe terms “American” and “U.S. citizen” are used interchangeably, but it is widely understood that there is more to being...
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A cathedral could become a museum to a painful legacy: slavery -- Note for a...
Los Angeles Times - Scott MartelleThe Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island may be on to something good.So what does [slavery] have to do with present-day life in America? Nothing and everything, depending...
View ArticleDiscrimination against Asian-Americans in college admission -- Note for a...
Business Times of Singapore Press HoldingsAmerica's affirmative action programmes designed to help racial minorities are being used by Ivy League schools to discriminate against Asian-AmericansBy Leon...
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Everybody hates Americans: My life abroad as the maligned Other - Note for a...
Salon Via YO on FacebookLiving in a small Canadian town taught me the near-obsession of outsiders' scorn. Finally, I'm ready to push backBESS RATTRAY Share 1K 318 892 TOPICS: LIFE STORIES,...
View ArticleFrom Oops to Whoops
THE OPINION PAGES | OPED COLUMNISTFrom Oops to WhoopsThe Long Road From American to EnglishDEC. 1, 2014Roger Cohen, New York TimesLONDON — It can be as insignificant as the slide from “oops” to...
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Pat Buchanan: Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? -- Note...
From amazon.comimage fromAmerica is disintegrating. The “one Nation under God, indivisible” of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In a few decades, that America will be gone forever. In its...
View ArticleHow income inequality undermines U.S. power
Washington PostKurt M. CampbellKurt M. Campbell, chairman and chief executive of the Asia Group investment and consulting firm, was assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from...
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