Some parting thoughts
As it may be a note of relief to all of you, the semester has finally come to an end. For some of us, it’s an end to one chapter and the beginning of another in our academic lives.
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As it may be a note of relief to all of you, the semester has finally come to an end. For some of us, it’s an end to one chapter and the beginning of another in our academic lives.
On Friday, April 29, Prince William and Kate Middleton will be wed at Westminster Abbey. The whole affair will have an estimated cost of more than $70 million. Hundreds of journalists, foreign dignitaries, celebrities and millions of people on the streets of London and billions watching on TV, will be envious of an event that will never happen in their lives.
There is an enormous irony about the conflict in Afghanistan. From the treacherous uncertainties of the Anglo–Afghan conflict to the shady deals of Communist invasion, to the subsequent circus of “warlord football,” to now decade-long American involvement, I can’t help but wonder what in the world is going on in Afghanistan?
I should like to begin this piece by noting that I am not entirely sure whether I have mentioned that I am somewhat obsessed with language; not just this or that particular language, but language as a concept — what Noam Chomsky called our “capacity for language.”
It has been widely discussed, at least in my own margins of political science and literature enthusiasts, that the previous presidential elections were battled on the basis of a rather unfelt intellectual pulse.
In his novella “The Pearl,” John Steinbeck tells the story of a young pearl diver, Kino. This novella is a piece of fiction that often reminds me of the cancerous greed that has taken root in our collective national psyche.
It is said of Ivan Karamazov, from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov,” that if there is no God, everything is permitted.
March 20 marked the eighth anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq. This was not just an anniversary of military aggression against a nation that had no part in the 2001 terror attacks against the U.S.
On Wednesday, March 2, the Supreme Court, in a vote of 8 to 1, decided that America’s most unpleasant, homophobic and misogynistic religious group — the Westboro Baptist Church — can in fact continue picketing fallen American servicemen and women’s funerals.
Over the last several weeks, we have witnessed mass awakenings of the working class all over the world: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and now America.
Imagine a person who’s a compulsive shopaholic. Weekly, this person spends about $400 on various accessories, $100 on food and $20 on various vitamins and health-related products. Imagine further that this person wants to confront this unsustainable habit — especially because she has to borrow money from friends to go on with it — and cut back on spending starting with health-related products.
Have you ever been asked where you were on a day when a significant historical event happened? Where, for example, were you when planes hit the World Trade Center in New York? Or when the first bombs were dropped in Iraq? What about when Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak, resigned after 18 days of populace and peaceful protests?
Last week I participated in a rally organized by students at ASU in solidarity with the Egyptian people. As I stood in the intersection of Mill and University, holding a sign that read, “Stop supporting dictators with my tax dollars,” and shouting, “Hey Obama, don’t you know Mubarak has got to go?” I realized how wrong I was.
I can’t tell which of the two hangs me up on the proverbial razor wire: people who can’t stop saying “like” every other word or those who defend this post-modern abuse of English as the natural evolution of language.
Allow me to begin with a confession: I find cable news absolutely repulsive. In fact, I don’t think I know anyone for whom this confession isn’t true.
Imagine being dead and brought to a divine court to be judged for all those horrible sins you committed when you were alive.
Among many other achievements of the now-departed year, 2010 marked the passage of H.R. 3590, otherwise known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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