Detained 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, . . .
Read MoreJe suis arrivée à Boston la veille du marathon. Le lendemain, tous les médias résonnaient du bruit des attentats. Moi qui viens de la région la plus pacifique du monde, la Suisse, j’ai été frappée par la façon professionnelle et émotionnelle dont ces événements ont été traités. Professionnelles parce que l’analyse de . . .
Read MoreI arrived in Boston on the eve of the marathon. The day after, the media buzzed with news of the attacks. Coming from Switzerland, the most peaceful place in the world, I was struck by the emotional and professional way these events were treated. Professional—within a few hours after a few poor . . .
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