Archive for April, 2003
Where’s Nigeria?
Atrios on the Hostage Crisis in Nigeria:
Hostage crisis? What on Earth are you talking about Atrios? What hostage crisis? What? You’re telling me that 21 Americans have been held hostage for 11 days in Nigeria and I haven’t heard anything about it? How is that possible?
Save Sheldon Zink!
Actually, save her field notes:
Dr. Sheldon Zink, a medical anthropologist has received five subpoenas and notices since December 16, 2002.?Ǭ
Rolling Back the 20th Century
Media Transparency has a great who’s-who of which conservative think tank folks have been given what government jobs under Bush. I don’t think there is necessarily anything wrong with this - except that the left have completely failed to mobilize intellectual resources in the same way. Still, considering the craziness of the beliefs that these […]
Where are the women
From Body and Soul:
One of the things that struck me watching the crowds tearing down the statues of Saddam Hussein was that I didn’t see any women. Another thing that struck me was that no one commented on this — as if streets without women were entirely normal. Pardon my stereotypically feminist response, but to […]
Dwarkin on the Michigan Case
But race matters independently of the other background factors with which it may or may not be correlated, for two reasons. First, the experience of a black person in American society is special, and cannot be duplicated by the experience of a white person of similar economic or social background; it is pedagogically important that […]
The Leni Riefenstahl of George Bush’s new imperial order
Niall Ferguson: This guy is all over the place - the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, etc. and now he has a new book, Empire, which seems to be an apology for British Colonialism. I had to spend about an hour on the internet before I could find even one critical […]
“hundreds of people exactly like me” in the favelas of Brazil
The author of the book that the movie City of God is based on was interviewed in the NY Times:
The notion that he is a freakishly gifted ghetto anomaly embarrasses and even irritates him. He has the view from his window to remind him that cannot possibly be true. “Just in the City of God […]
Ashcroft: illegal immigrants can be jailed indefinitely
In yet another grab for power and blow to justice, Attorney General John Ashcroft has issued a legal opinion declaring that most illegal immigrants can be jailed indefinitely without bond when national security risks exist.
Talk Left
Impeach Bush
So here’s the deal:
Bush has six months to find the WMDs that spurred this war. Six months to find the hundreds of tons of chemical weapons that posed an imminent threat to our nation and Iraq’s neighbors.
If in six months no such weapons are found, then start impeachment proceedings .
This war has been […]
Zakaria proscribes a road to a democratic Iraq
In Newsweek Fareed Zakaria proscribes a road to a democratic Iraq. Too bad Bush probably won’t read it. Here are some highlights:
What is called democracy in the West is really liberal democracy, a political system marked not only by free elections but also the rule of law, the separation of powers and basic human rights, […]
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
