Category: force

• NPR: Neo-Patriotic Rhetoric [Allegedly]

  Mar 18

  The one word that for the past week has been most overused, overstressed, and blindly repeated: alleged. In reference this past week to the US soldier who murdered children and… more ›

• 8:15

  Aug 6

  Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe writes about Hiroshima, moral responsibility, outrage, and aging in today’s The New York Times op-ed section. It’s an oblique essay about the travesty of Japanese policy… more ›

• Tongues of Fire: Articulations of and against Terror (Part II of IV)

  Aug 28

  Question 1 Is terror-power the same in all cases, or is there a qualitative difference between terror-power employed by a state and that employed by a non-state actor? Are there… more ›

• Tongues of Fire: Articulations of and against Terror (Part I of IV)

  Jul 31

  In his eighth thesis on the philosophy of history, written during the spring of 1940, Walter Benjamin writes, One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name… more ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: There’s nothing casual …

  Aug 19

  … about being a casualty. Listening to these songs in the parking lot this afternoon made me feel a bit antisocial and embarrassed. I was sitting in the car with… more ›

• Tiananmen

  Jun 4

  I was in Beijing just a few days after the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It was still closed to the public for “renovation,” in anticipation of protests… more ›

• Overview

  May 11

  Is it over yet?Now is the time when my prick of a professor contacts my colleagues to let them know when the revised deadline is for their obligatory rewrite. Graduate… more ›

• Indefensible Offense

  Apr 30

  Obama, radical leader of the Obamanations, has finally denounced his spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, because of assertions the reverend has made about the United States’ role in worldwide… more ›

• Fidelidad

  Feb 19

  Just let me say amid the shouts of self-congratulatory glee across DC and Miami today: the problem with Cuba has never been Fidel Castro. Cuba’s problem has never had anything… more ›

• A Valentine’s Day Revolution

  Feb 14

  So six alleged terrorists who have been incarcerated for the past several years in Guantánamo will finally have their day in court, albeit a military court, but a court nevertheless.… more ›