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On Good Samaritans
Seventeen years ago this month I started a job on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and while I looked for a room of my own I lived briefly with a cousin, his wife, infant daughter and cat in Springfield, Va. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged accidents, aid, assistance, charity, Ethics, Good Samaritans, Interfaith traditions, parable of the Good Samaritan, tzedakah, zakat
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Matters of Interpretation
If the unfortunate fracas over the fraudulent sign language interpreter for the public funeral service of Nelson Mandela had one upside, it might be this wonderful, illuminating (if short) discussion with Melanie Metzger, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Interpretation … Continue reading
Bosnian Culture is World Culture: March 4 is Global Museum Solidarity Day
Today more than 200 museums, galleries and libraries in nearly 40 countries on five continents symbolically closed exhibits in solidarity with seven closed and threatened cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina. More than 20 galleries and universities in North America, 50 in … Continue reading
Riot Girls
Almost everything that needs to be said about the case of Pussy Riot, the Russian all-female punk rock band now awaiting a verdict in a “hooliganism” trial in Moscow, has been said. Nobody seriously doubts this is a political show … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Political Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged aesthetics and politics, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Maria Alyokhina Yekaterina Samutsevich, nature of politics, politics, president vaclav havel, propaganda, Pussy Riot, repressive regimes, RT, Russia, Russia Today, totalitarian regimes, Vladimir Putin, western political philosophy
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Walt Whitman, American
For American Independence Day, selections from Walt Whitman: America (1888) Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Uncategorized
Tagged America, American Poetry, Books, Fourth of July, Independence Day, Patriotism, poetry, United States, Walt Whitman
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Syria and the Obligation to Protect
Syria’s efficient slaughter of its own people seeking political change is another grim reminder of the impotence the global community brandishes when it must. I am less cynical than others, but I see international legal norms for what they are: … Continue reading
Nowa Huta and the Political Aesthetic
In the fall of 2009 I visited Krakow, the ancient capital of Poland, with a NATO delegation. This allowed me to visit an extraordinary experiment mounted by the Communist government in the late 1940s. On the outskirts of Krakow, in … Continue reading
