Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]
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Almohad Tower of Gold, Seville (Photo)
Photograph by Juan Cole, July 27, 2010 The Torre del Oro in Seville, Spain, was built in the 1200s by the Almohad (Berber Muslim) dynasty […]
It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart … (D. H. Lawrence Poster)
Collapsing Afghanistan & Pakistan Refuse to Cooperate with Obama Photo Op
President Barack Obama sneaked in and out of Afghanistan by the cover of night, his advance security team clearly too worried about the situation in […]
“Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful” (George Orwell Poster)
Romney wants to Fight Whole Muslim World, not Concentrate on Bin Laden
Mitt Romney said Monday that of course he would have taken out Bin Laden and that ‘even Jimmy Carter would have made that call.’ Since […]
A man’s duty to understand his world (Hemingway Poster)
Omar Khayyam (125)
That lapis lazuli dome and golden tray have turned time and again, and will revolve yet more. We, too, by the command of fate, arrived […]
Israeli Security Elite Slams Netanyahu, sidetracks War on Iran
Not only are high officials and former officials of the Israeli security establishment pushing hard back against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s seeming rush to war […]
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