2002

Black Hawk Afghanistan

Joe Lockard
The world of Black Hawk Down is not one created by military dominance, but rather by massive political uncertainties and unresolved human suffering.

John Q and Health Care Policy

Joe Lockard
Denzel Washington is doing a better job leading healthcare debate than the legislators who have an electoral mandate to deal with the issue.

Mr. Feinberg: Meet the People

Jo Rittenhouse
The fact that I, as a citizen of this country, currently have fewer rights than my cats do makes me wonder.

Sharonism

Joe Lockard
Sharonism is the political philosophy that military force decides all questions and politicians are no better than the armies at their command.

Grapes, Onions and Criminalizing Peace

Joe Lockard
Once I helped stop Ariel Sharon for three hours.

Whose Good Fortuyn?

Charlie Bertsch
The metamorphosis of the Netherlands from an exemplary nation to an example of Europe's continuing troubles with difference turns on the figure of Pim Fortuyn.

September 11, 2002: Reflections from a Year's Distance

Cynthia Hoffman
This isn't going to be is a paean to my country, a demonstration of how patriotic I am, or how September 11, 2001 changed my life emotionally.

"You're a Hitler! No, you're a Hitler!"

John Brady
If there is a war with Iraq, we will surely be treated to enough staged, slickly packaged examples of military conflict. We have no need for contrived episodes of political conflict.

Launching the Creative Commons

Megan Shaw Prelinger
Recent extensions to copyright terms have had a cumulative effect of dwindling the public domain almost out of existence.

Criminalizing-Peace-Arabic.pdf

 

Sharonism-Arabic.pdf