The Notes Taken

US President Obama was considered radical, by right-wing Israeli supporters, for merely stating the obvious conditions necessary for a viabl...

In my previous post on BHL and DSK, I stated that if Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the champion of the French left, then I would hate to see it...

Never a man to let ethical experience get in the way of media presence, Bernard-Henri Lévy has published a defense of Dominique Strauss-Kah...

It is very easy for Westerns to look at the carnage in Libya, the slaughter in Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen as distinctly Arab proclivities. Wh...

I'm much more of an 'old' atheist, committed to social justice and to thinking about religion dialectically (as an institution t...

The only really touristy thing that my wife and I have done in Paris so far is a visit to the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (the rest of you ca...

It is Mother's Day. Mothers are important. We should never forget our good mothers and we should not forget our history. What history? A...

Although I don't want to get into the routine of starting posts with apologies about not blogging more frequently, here are a few autobi...

The US State Department's website explains the background and role of NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization). It states: Formed in 194...

  I've been catching up with my blog subscription/RSS feed list over the last few days, and imagine my surprise when, searching through...