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The Owl of Minerva flies high over Wasilla, Alaska
by Lawrence McMahon As the most common interpretation of Middle Eastern history goes, the Arab countries’ defeat in the 1967 war with Israel marked the beginning of the end of secular Arab nationalism, and the subsequent rise of radical Islamism. The events of 1967 were a crushing defeat for the secular Arab regimes. For some […]
The New Middle Passage, and the Aristocracy of Citizenship: On Immigration
May 18, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon One of today’s headlines: “513 people found in 2 trucks headed to U.S.” Advanced x-ray technology allowed Mexican authorities in the southern state of Chiapas to detect and stop two truckloads of illegal immigrants headed toward the U.S. The image released, intended to showcase the high-tech savvy behind this “great victory” of […]
The Owl of Minerva flies high over Helsinki
May 8, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon The true irony of the Arab Spring is that, whilst the Arabs openly declare their allegiance to the universal of political democracy, the Europeans move toward the particularity of their right-wing nationalist parties. The logic of Eurocentrism posits “the West” as the progressive democratic universal, and “the East” as the backward theological […]
Struggle or Extinction? And Other Inexorable Questions
May 1, 2011
by Phil Ingram It has been said that any thinker who is proceeding along the philosophical road must eventually cross the bridge known as the most basic question of philosophy – materialism or idealism: the relationship of being and consciousness – before he or she can seriously begin delving into those “general theoretical, world-view questions […]
May 26, 2011
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