Phil Klay’s Redeployment: Born into the Corps

One of the best known Vietnam War novels is Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers (1979), if only because Stanley Kubrick directed … More

Propaganda and the Ukrainian Uprising

Timothy Snyder does an excellent job of sorting through the misinformation about the Ukrainian revolution. He notes, "the message from … More

Just to show there are no hard feelings after anti-Chinese riots broke out in Algeria, the Chinese government is giving … More

Slavoj Žižek weighs in on the WikiLeaks controversy with characteristic dialectical zig-zags ending in an apocalyptic vision. He starts in … More

Multiculturalism generated a great deal of interest in American college campuses in the 1980s and ’90s–as well as a great … More

This week in Israel started innocently enough. Haaretz had invited a number of prominent authors to help celebrate Israel’s national … More

It’s now been scientifically proven that the Internet totally destroys your attention span, so I will keep this Fun Friday … More

The Twitter feed persiankiwi has dramatic, and virtually minute by minute updates from Tehran. Posted a few moments ago: we … More

This just in from the Tehran Times: TEHRAN – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has … More

Borders have long been a privileged postmodern space. Borders are where differing cultures come into contact with each other. Most … More