Some weblinks
Oct. 24th, 2003 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThe New York Times obituary for Madame Chiang Kai-Shek is fascinating. In terms of the length of her life, her power at her height, and her outliving of her historical role, she rather reminds me of Napoléon III's wife Eugénie.
Danny Postel's interview of Canadian academic Shadia Drury at Open Democracy on the very problematic nature of Leo Strauss and his influence in the American political establishment is worth attention, if only because of the implications of her claims. (See Crooked Timber, here and here, for a more critical take on Strauss and Shadia.)
The recent tumult over Syphon Filter's plans to show a Québec terrorist group attacking Toronto, using biological weapons on innocent Torontonians and machine-gunning people generally, was amusing.
Patrick Belton, at Oxblog, links to a correspondent's fascinating description of life in the United Arab Emirates.
From Tendencias, an overview of migration in the Americas and Latin America.
Finally, from the Guardian of the United Kingdom, one readable article on literature transformed into music, another a touching story of a mother's reaction to her teenage son's announcement that he was gay.
Danny Postel's interview of Canadian academic Shadia Drury at Open Democracy on the very problematic nature of Leo Strauss and his influence in the American political establishment is worth attention, if only because of the implications of her claims. (See Crooked Timber, here and here, for a more critical take on Strauss and Shadia.)
The recent tumult over Syphon Filter's plans to show a Québec terrorist group attacking Toronto, using biological weapons on innocent Torontonians and machine-gunning people generally, was amusing.
Patrick Belton, at Oxblog, links to a correspondent's fascinating description of life in the United Arab Emirates.
From Tendencias, an overview of migration in the Americas and Latin America.
Finally, from the Guardian of the United Kingdom, one readable article on literature transformed into music, another a touching story of a mother's reaction to her teenage son's announcement that he was gay.
