“Conservatism Is True.” By Andrew Sullivan, 16 Jun 2011 09:57 PM … It’s funny that Fareed Zakaria and I are now seen as beyond the conservative pale. We were both Harvard immigrants at the same time and definitely right of center (although I always had more libertarian impulses). The core reason I became a conservative …
Category: History
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Jun 17 2011
A threat or a promise?
Eisenhower’s worst fears came true. We invent enemies to buy the bombs By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 16 June 2011 21.00 BST … Why do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. We find any excuse for this post-imperial fidget and yet we keep getting trapped. Germans do not do it, or Spanish …
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Jun 12 2011
Botched imperial partitions
Tremors on mountains of tyranny By Pankaj Mishra, June 13, 2011 … AT A dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz wrote: ”We shall witness [the day] when the enormous mountains of tyranny blow away like cotton.” That miraculous day finally came in Egypt …
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Jun 10 2011
Uninformed readings
What You Should Know Before Reading The Bible By Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D., 06/ 9/11 02:17 PM ET … This essay might, alternatively, be called “On Not Reading the Bible.” But then I must hastily add: I’m not against reading the Bible. Not exactly, anyway. Thing is, the Bible doesn’t lend itself to reading straight …
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Jun 10 2011
Who is Brian Haw?
St Francis of Assisi: a saint for our times By Heather McDougall, Thursday 9 June 2011 11.43 BST … We are living through cuts to services and benefits that will disproportionately affect the poor. We have also seen a hysterical response to protest and dissent from some sections of society. Concern for the poor is …
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Jun 10 2011
We wake up empty and frightened
The true spiritual leader of Iran is Rumi By Melody Moezzi, Friday 10 June 2011 14.30 BST … Iran’s officially recognised “spiritual leader” today may be Ayatollah Khamenei, but for hundreds of years before the current establishment of mullahs and ayatollahs, Iranians of all creeds have looked to another spiritual leader: Jalal ad-Din Rumi. While …
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Jun 07 2011
Fighting shabiha
The people vs The President By Robert Fisk, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 … Syria’s revolt against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad is turning into an armed insurrection, with previously peaceful demonstrators taking up arms to fight their own army and the “shabiha” – meaning “the ghosts”, in English – of Alawi militiamen who have …
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