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Juan Cole says it’s just about over.
Archive for August, 2011
August 21st, 2011
Category: Political Science
The malignant narcissism of a Saddam Hussein is at the extreme of a spectrum of power-induced pathologies.
August 21st, 2011
Category: Political Science, Psychology
By any objective analysis, Colonel Gaddafi is toast, but his official statements still forecast victory, as they have throughout each defeat of his troops over the past 6 months. One can’t help recalling Saddam Hussein’s Information Minister who relayed his boss’s increasingly ludicrous reports of success as the regime was rapidly being crushed. There is [...]
August 20th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
I will travel to London in mid-September to speak at the LSE. As I tried to use my Mastercard to pay for my London plane ticket, I was informed by the British Airways Webpage that my credit card company had blocked my transaction. I called Mastercard and their agent told me that the transaction was [...]
August 20th, 2011
Category: Film
Over the past year I have been working as the executive producer of an independent art film, and in that capacity was looking yesterday at some of the great raw footage the director had shot. The boom microphone was visible at the top of many of the shots, which reminded me of an unpleasant college [...]
August 20th, 2011
Category: Personal moment
This is such a brave and compassionate piece by Jessica Valenti, whose infant was born weighing a little over 2 pounds and spent 56 days in the neonatal intensive care unit. In showing compassion for herself and for her own turbulent emotions in difficult times, she performs a real service for many other parents.
August 19th, 2011
Category: Campaign 2012, Democratic Party
A speech eerily pertinent to the present.
August 19th, 2011
Category: Blogging, Politics and Leadership
I don’t think it has been announced yet on RBC that we entered a few months back into a partnership with Washington Monthly. RBC posts are now regularly carried on WashMo’s “Ten Miles Square” blog, where you can also read stimulating comments by a number of other bloggers. To wit, my fellow West Virginia mountaineer, [...]
August 18th, 2011
Category: Health and Medicine
The American Society of Addiction Medicine has released a new definition of “addiction” which focuses on the disorder’s biological underpinnings in the brain. As I discuss at Stanford Medical School’s SCOPE blog today, distinguishing addiction from “a lot of substance use” is useful for many reasons, not least so that doctors will not undertreat acute [...]