Author: DPstaff
All History is Environmental History
…and that includes both environmental effects on societies and those societies’ impacts on the environment.
The Future of Political Science
Impotence Through Relevance? Faustian Bargains, Beyond Impact and the Future of Political Science.
Autocracy, Kleptocracy and the Threat to Democracy
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World provides an incisive exposition and analysis of how autocrats function in the world today…
Noam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars
Noam Chomsky, the Author of “The Myth of American Idealism” Explores the Origins of America’s Hegemonic Foreign Policy.
Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” is Bad Art. But At Least It’s Art.
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis has inspired much reflection about creativity, commerce, the freedom of the artist and the state of Hollywood.
Poem: Whom I Write For
I write for the young man, demented, who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima; I write for Nasser and Ben Gurion; For Krushchev and…
When Open Palm, Tree Stump and Carpet Spoke
by Arjumand Faisel at Gallery 6: After displaying 90 paintings on diverse subjects for the…
Marshall Plans
At September’s UN General Assembly in New York, Brazil’s President Lula described the international financial system as a “Marshall Plan in reverse”
Poem: ‘Birthday’ by Patricia Smith
On this bed of chilled steel, I am the morning’s work,your project after coffee and,…
How to Make Lying Unpopular in Politics
Lying matters. It poisons our discourse, breeds cynicism about government, and makes it difficult to have serious conversations…
Indian and Israeli Ethno-Nationalism
Balmurli Natrajan: “Hinduism has many aspects to it that have really nothing to do with Hindutva.”
God And Insurance: Ten Comparisons Between Egypt And Germany
by Eric Schenck at 3 Quarks Daily: The longer you’re in a new country the more it becomes a relationship. It starts out wonderful…