Many thanks to Jim Hicks of the Massachusetts Review, Amanda Minervini of Salem State University, and Adam Sitze of Amherst College for their very engaging comments about my book, and for the time they took to read it and write about it. I would like to focus on the assertion by Adam Sitze . . .
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Folks who follow this magazine will have noted that we keep closer tabs than most on events in the former Yugoslavia. Here MR Contributor Ulvija Tanović reports from streets of Sarajevo on the protests that have lit up cities around Bosnia-Herzegovina over the past week—a revolt that began on the thirty-year anniversary . . .
Read MoreDetained without charge in Cairo Since August 16, 2013, thousands of people internationally start their days by checking the website tarekandjohn.com, hoping for news of the release of physician Tarek Loubani and filmmaker and scholar John Greyson, two Canadians arrested and detained without charge at the Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt. Loubani’s and . . .
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I have something of a rule of thumb when it comes to writing about political issues. If it’s a matter where we only need to listen to historians, political theorists and strategists, or even philosophers, I’d best stay out of it. Not that the magazine itself should: At the Massachusetts Review, “A Quarterly . . .
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Editor’s Note. In press coverage of the Snowden affair, there often seems to be little sense of what is really at stake. We asked Adam Sitze, from Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, to shine a bit more light on the subject. What follows here is the conclusion of . . .
Read MoreEditor’s Note. In press coverage of the Snowden affair, there often seems to be little sense of what is really at stake. We asked Adam Sitze, from Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, to shine a bit more light on the subject. What follows here is the fourth of . . .
Read MoreEditor’s Note. In press coverage of the Snowden affair, there often seems to be little sense of what is really at stake. We asked Adam Sitze, from Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, to shine a bit more light on the subject. What follows here is the third of . . .
Read MoreEditor’s Note. In press coverage of the Snowden affair, there often seems to be little sense of what is really at stake. We asked Adam Sitze, from Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, to shine a bit more light on the subject. What follows here is the second of . . .
Read MoreEditor’s Note. In press coverage of the Snowden affair, there often seems to be little sense of what is really at stake. We asked Adam Sitze, from Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, to shine a bit more light on the subject. What follows here is the first of . . .
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A “feeding chair” in the Guantanamo medical wing where hunger-striking detainees are force fed. Photo by Sgt. Brian Godette, Army 138th Public Affairs Detachment. (Mother Jones) “During these last decades the interest in professional fasting has markedly diminished. It used to pay very well to stage such great performances under one’s own management, . . .
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