Apr 20 2011
Church and Empire By C.H.Featherstone, Thursday, March 17, 2011 … One of the things Pete Leithart is trying to do with his book, Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom, is to question Mennonite John Howard Yoder’s ideas on the “Constantinian Deal,” the arrangement between the church and the imperial …
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Apr 17 2011
In the Arab revolutions, echoes of a 100-year-old book By Todd Fine, Friday, April 15, 5:15 PM … A century before young men and women took to the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other parts of the Arab world, demanding a new way of life and a new kind of politics, there was young …
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Apr 17 2011
The Power of Mockery By Nicholas D. Kristof, April 16, 2011 … The juiciest story behind the Middle East uprisings doesn’t concern Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s “voluptuous” Ukrainian nurse or C.I.A. bags of cash. Rather, it’s the tale of how a nonviolent revolutionary strategy crafted by Serbian students and an octogenarian American scholar came to challenge …
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Apr 17 2011
Nothing dates so fast as a futurist By Tom Hodgkinson, Sunday, 17 April 2011 … Reports of the death of the book are, I think, greatly exaggerated. The futurists out there would have us believe that ugly utilitarian devices such as the Kindle and other e-readers will gradually replace sheets of printed paper bound …
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Apr 16 2011
Arabs Give Neocons a Reality Check By James Zogby, 04/16/11 09:44 AM ET … While much of what has come to be known as “the Arab Spring” remains a work in progress, there can be no doubt that a new dynamic has been unleashed across the region — one that will have a profound impact …
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Apr 11 2011
A mission to ‘civilise’ the East, again? By Hayrettin Yucesoy, 11 Apr 2011 09:43 … As was announced recently by UK prime minister David Cameron, Britain, Germany, France and the US have begun talks to support Libya’s transition away from a violent dictatorship and to help create the conditions where the people of Libya can choose their own future. It …
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Apr 10 2011
Beware men of power who turn to writing books By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 9 April 2011 … Lebanon is a great place to pick up the linguistic ticks of the region’s – hopefully still falling – dictators. And I owe it to Alexandre Najjar to raise in the literary section of the French-language L’Orient Le …
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