The Iranian Interest

The assassination of an author

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. The latest victim of  this age old tactic is Milan Kundera, the world’s leasing author. >>>

Americans: A nation of givers

Americans are the most giving people in the world. >>>

John McCain & the making of a financial crisis

The Making of a Financial Crisis is an impressive short documentary that shows why John McCain's failed philosophy and poor judgment are a recipe for deepening the economic crisis. >>>

If you were a Jew

If you were a Jew in the time of Holocaust your chances of being helped by your kind neighbors were greater if you lived in Denmark or Italy than if you lived in Belgium. >>>

Of woman

To my knowledge, men often ask themselves “What is woman?” “When does a ‘girl’ become a ‘woman’?” >>>

The futurology of the Middle East

Islamist terrorism is a security threat that will not last longer than two generations. As for the oil, there will be as much oil as anyone might want>>>

An apostate Pakistani girl: Let me speak

The following is a letter written by a young Pakistani woman on my post entitled “Do Muslim women believe and desire what Western women believe and desire?.” The letter, though provocative, is a good read: >>>

Selfhood

Most of us manage to make unstable adjustments to the fact of aging and the inevitability of death by becoming in our unconscious fantasies “all omnipotent, externally young, and immortal.” >>>

'It’s the Middle East, Stupid'

Given the magnitude of the crisis in the wider Middle East, the Palestinian-Israeli crisis should be seen for what it is: a potato issue.
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Sociological imagination: Iranian Revolution

Ordinary Iranian people’s notion of utopia being their own idea of existing society minus its most disagreeable and oppressive features plus democracy.>>>

Liberal Musilms

The good news is that liberal Islam is on the rise, representing the overwhelming majority within the Muslim world today. The bad news is that it is a silent majority, or more accurately, a silenced one. >>>

Osama bin Laden’s attacks had a threefold purpose

The consensus among some of the most notable American scholars is that America is no mere superpower or hegemon but a full-blown empire. >>>

Racism of the anti-racists: Multiculturalism

To say that we should drop the discourse of multiculturalism, a discourse which has caused more trouble than it has been worth, is not to say that the we have discovered that, out there, there is a “universal truth,” and Western civilization has a grasp of it. No. >>>

I am no man, I am dynamite

For Americans the 20th Century was that of the greatest experiment in terms of social progress, democracy, human rights, global civil society, and global human rights culture, ever seen in history. >>>

Do Muslim women believe and desire what Western women believe and desire?

Following Virginia Woolf’s model of sexual equality, the internationalist feminists are convinced of the universality of women’s needs and rights beyond national boundaries>>>