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A Development Problem

Matthew — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:58 +0000

A development problem_ prime minister Manmohan Singh has identified Maoists as the single most serious threat to India’s national security. In the last few years, these facts have been well-circulated in news reports on India’s stability. But who are the Maoists? What do they believe?

I can bear anything for the sake of beauty

Matthew — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:00:03 +0000

I can bear anything for the sake of beauty_ As if in response to these words a faint moan came from the girl's lips. Slowly she began to recover her senses. With each shuddering breath, the spider's legs stirred as if they were alive.

We are what we believe

Matthew — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:00:31 +0000

We are what we believe_ Our believing brains make no qualitative distinctions between the kinds of things you learn in a math textbook and the kinds of things you learn in Sunday school.

A plague at a feast

Matthew — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:00:03 +0000

A plague at a feast: States are not so much declining, failing and yielding as transforming their very nature. The network is the right metaphor to grasping the new state's complexity.

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Matthew — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:00:57 +0000

Hans Bennink

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Matthew — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:00:56 +0000

You are quick like a monkey, running through the tree-tops, But now you will die.

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Matthew — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:00:53 +0000

“We’re so motivated to get rid of that feeling that we look for meaning and coherence elsewhere,”

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Matthew — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:00:23 +0000

Long lines of people stretched around city blocks in front of ATM machines, waiting hours to withdraw the equivalent of US $3—the maximum allowed by law.

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Matthew — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:00:25 +0000

Alan Jackson

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Matthew — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:00:49 +0000

America’s best and brightest will continue to explore innovative ways for human rights to serve a thoroughly militarized foreign policy

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Matthew — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:00:44 +0000

It is silent. I don't smoke. I don't want to bother her. She continues to cry.

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Matthew — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:00:27 +0000

What are you in the art world? The answer, and the art world, matter less each time the question is asked.

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Matthew — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:00:14 +0000

It is unlikely that anyone has ever confused a page of Thomas Friedman’s with one of Immanuel Kant’s, but between them it is possible to triangulate a prevailing sensibility of the past two decades.

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Matthew — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:06:32 +0000

Today, approximately a billion people — close to one-sixth of humanity — suffer from continual and severe hunger.

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Matthew — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:00:38 +0000

Multiculturalists claim that the presence in a society of a diversity of peoples limits the possibility of common values. Clash of civilisations warriors insist that such values are impossible within an ethnically diverse society. Neither is right.

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Matthew — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:00:04 +0000

MOURIR A MADRID Un film de Frederic Rossif

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Matthew — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:00:19 +0000

TV Buddha by Nam June Paik

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Matthew — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:00:17 +0000

I'd like to see the porno staged in one of those George W. Bush, No-Child-Left-Behind inspired "charter" elementary schools.

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Matthew — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:00:43 +0000

Face up their eyes sometimes open and filling with miniature lakes, rivers down their temples, the children howling and their teeth useless fangs

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Matthew — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:00:41 +0000

Society is fast becoming an asylum, a place without privacy, because private space away from scrutiny is where abuses occur. Here we have the final attack on the self.