View Article  Doubleplus ungood Facebook
The frequently irritating (that is, worth reading) columnist Heather Mallick was writing last week about Facebook. (See: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/01/21/f-vp-mallick.html). Her ...   more »
View Article  Saeed's stumble
Of all the rapid whirl of changes in the Islamic Republic of Iran, few are more intriguing than the fall ...   more »
View Article  Blowing hot and cold and dishonest
Perhaps you saw Sarah Palin’s tweet on December 19:Copenhgen=arrogance of man2think we can change nature's ways.MUST b good stewards ...   more »
View Article  Ayatollah Montazeri
To write about the death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Montazeri isn’t easy. Apart from one or two interviews he gave, ...   more »
View Article  Jockeying for power in Iran
For people willing to look past the issue of Iran’s still-nonexistent nukes, there were couple of fine pieces of analysis ...   more »
View Article  Outcomes and patience
Desperate conditions call for desperate measures, and revolutions are one obvious measure adopted by the desperate people facing the conditions ...   more »
View Article  Trash talk
Counting the number of critical columns and blog entries on Huffington Post yesterday and today about Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue...   more »
View Article  Minitrue
The historian Anthony Beevor has a new book out, called simply, D-Day. The book, going by reviews, is a ...   more »
View Article  Why do people join cults?
Satisfyingly, there have been a number of online reviews now of Love Sex Fear Death. While most are at ...   more »
View Article  A lesser Beast
Sometimes, you can buy or download a book with a high anticipation that’s only matched by the comedown produced in ...   more »
View Article  They was us
Yesterday’s post about promoting Love Sex Fear Death observed that, "Had The Process and its successor groups, The Foundation Faith ...   more »
View Article  Shameless promotion time
Promoting the book Love Sex Fear Death is obviously a labour of love for its publisher Feral House. http://feralhouse.com/titles/new_releases/love_sex_fear_death_the_inside_story_of_the_process_church_of_the_final_judgment.php. ...   more »
View Article  The sky of unknowing
Having spent part of today – wasted, my employer might say – on looking at reviews of the work of ...   more »
View Article  Boats, currents, ritual
You can’t go back, they always tell me. But then there’s F. Scott Fitzgerald, with his oh-so-quoted line about “boats ...   more »
View Article  Out there
The end of democracy has been in vogue recently. I don’t mean in Islamist circles, where the blasphemy of replacing ...   more »
View Article  Waiting on Netanyahu
For now, Iran is off the radar. Ayatollah Khamenei seems to have made whatever deals he needs to secure his ...   more »
View Article  Danish furore
Denmark is not a country I have visited. It’s a blink-and-you-miss-it peninsula of a country as you fly into northern ...   more »
View Article  Closed circles
The headlines this week about the kidnapping and confinement of Jaycee Lee Dugard have underlined created huge amounts of comment. ...   more »
View Article  Amir Taheri on Iran
The situation in Iran remains both tense and fluid, and discerning which faction(s) are on top is difficult. The Islamic ...   more »
View Article  Love Sex Fear Death
My reviewing the book Love Sex Fear Death at http://www.feralhouse.com is inappropriate, since (a) the primary author, Timothy Wyllie, is ...   more »
View Article  Endless denunciation
There’s not much that can be said about Charles Manson that isn’t repetition of the thousand-and-one previous denunciations. Even writing ...   more »
View Article  Fortunate son
Julian Borger’s article on the second son of Ayatollah Khamenei in The Guardian a month ago drew little interest at ...   more »
View Article  Great unwisdom
“The need (or craving) for transcendence may well be a great unwisdom, but without it we tend to become mere ...   more »
View Article  Inescapable faces
The case of Taraneh Mousavi (whose picture I posted today) is an intriguing if grisly one. Unlike Neda Agha-Soltan, whose ...   more »
View Article  A god of high places
Previous posts here have quoted Harold Bloom’s marvellous 2005 book, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine. Bloom, insisting he ...   more »
View Article  And on the other, other hand
Commenting on what has happened in Iran since my last post on the topic isn’t easy. The whole governmental system ...   more »
View Article  An ancient divide

Re-reading Vali Nasr’s 2006 book The Shia Revival, I’m struck by how the Saudis were able to fence in ...   more »

View Article  Watching from far away

Salam,

Every time I email you now, I am concerned that someone will read what I write, and will make ...   more »

View Article  The main man
Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani smiles a lot, but then the richest man in Iran – and, it’s often said, the country’s ...   more »
View Article  Loneliness in Iran
One factor about the Iranian situation that is hard for us to grasp is the isolation from the outer world ...   more »
View Article  Ebrahim Yazdi's view
There is a good analysis of the situation in the higher levels of the administration in Iran at www.asharq-e.com. ...   more »
View Article  The unwanted revolution

Our entire appreciation of what has happened in Iran in the past week is skewed, and we don’t know by ...   more »

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