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Dr. Takeshi Utsumi: Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming
David Hays introduced me to Takeshi Utsumi sometime back in the 1980s. Both of them were members of an on-going seminar convened at Columbia University by Seth Neugroschel on the topic of Computers,...
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Extra! Extra! Japanese Government Funds Distance Education on the Rez
No, it hasn’t happened yet. But who knows, stranger things have happened. By “the rez” I mean, of course, the reservation. In this case I have no particular reservation in mind but rather am thinking...
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Walt Disney, Stephen Miller and the Future of Jersey City
Buildings … are not discrete objects. They are building blocks of a democratic society. W. H. Auden once proposed that a civilization could be judged by “the degree of diversity attained and the degree...
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Advice for the MacArthur Genius Grants
Originally posted on Ideas, Predictions & Advice: I had heard of the MacArthur Foundation and its Fellows Program, where they give grants of $500,000 (turns out it has gone up to $625,000) to...
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The Absolute Dog
by Charlie Keil Review of Antisthenes of Athens: Setting the World Aright by Luis E. Navia. Greenwood Press. 2001 “I share Bertrand Russell’s conviction that modern cynicism constitutes the very...
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Five Easy Pieces: Race in the Symbolic Universe
A T&T working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2473235. The five pieces have been previously published on New Savanna. ❖ ❖ ❖ Abstract: How did Western culture get from Shakespeare’s Caliban to Bill...
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To War! America’s National Psyche
I’m reproducing a set of notes I wrote up during the 2000 Presidential Election. I’m republishing them now in recognition of yet another turn in the long-spinning wheel of American mythology....
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A Marx Brothers Analysis of America’s War Craziness
I grew up watching Groucho Marx on his “You Bet Your Life” television show. My father assured me that the Marx Brothers films were the funniest ever. But I didn’t get to see any of them until I went to...
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Where’s the World Headed & the Rise of Cities, a Quickie
Scotland recently came close to pulling out of Great Britain. What’s that about? As the day of the vote drew near I’d see stories on the theme: If Scotland goes, what next? Catalonia? Quebec? Vermont?...
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GOOD: Global Organization of Democracies
Here’s a triple, a trifecta, a trinity, from Charlie Keil. It’s about a Global Organization of Democracies (GOOD). Let him explain it. An Open Letter to Citizens of the World Dear Citizen: I think we...
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