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For the last week or so, I have been intrigued by Michel Foucault’s concept; “Care of the Self.” I am still exploring it in his writings. What intrigues me most is the phrase itself, set in the context of the care of oneself being the center of one’s ethical universe. It is easy to take [...]
On February 17, 2011, non-violent protesters began to take to the streets in Libya, seeking an end to decades of dictatorship and calling for basic human rights, rule of law, and rudimentary economic development. It was apparent to me, that given; the violent history of the regime, the absence of international media inside Libya, the [...]
At the beginning of this year I decided to consciously try and move beyond what I diagnosed as “binary thinking.” Since then, the importance of such a transition has only become more apparent. This resolution is not, as some may be forgiven for perceiving, some self-aggrandizing intellectual conceit. It was necessitated by a realization that [...]
At the outset, it is worth mentioning that as I watched President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan tonight I realized that the luxury of not being governed by an idiot has yet to wear off. Obviously, the entire Iraq War has been a complete distraction from the efficient prosecution of the war in Afghanistan. On somewhat [...]
The progressive view today is that America needs to invest in its infrastructure in order to dig its way out of the hole in which it has placed itself. And when we think of infrastructure we thing of bridges, roads and broadband – physical things, divided into the shovel-ready and those that at some point [...]
Below is the 1630 sermon by John Winthrop, locus within American culture, of the influential concept of the “city on the hill” (a perfected society). I don’t subscribe to any of the religious invocations, and I am uncomfortable with the notion that any single immigrant’s story should speak for the rest of us that came [...]
