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Still, while the affair has its concealed agendas--Iraq and a loathing of Blair's support for George W. Bush, a President Britons rate as substantially more dangerous to world peace than Kim Jong Il--the Prime Minister is the author of his predicament. His troubles have their roots in the days when his party reveled in a deep-seated hostility to the running dogs of capitalism. "In 1983 we still had a manifesto committed to nationalizing key parts of industry, promoting an agenda that was set against every interest of British business," says Ed Owen, a former government adviser...
...British troops, saying, “If we lose that moral compass, we’ve lost what we’re fighting for.” The audience included Samantha Power, Lindh professor of practice of global leadership and public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “A Problem From Hell.” “[The film] pulls all findings of all investigations together with the best evidence to constitute a clarion call for a 9-11-style investigation,” Power said...
...debate has gone until today, with theology and science unrelentingly deadlocked. In November of last year, the latest round of God vs. science played out not in a lecture hall, but on the pages of TIME, where practicing Christian and prominent geneticist Francis Collins faced off against Richard Dawkins, author of the best-selling “The God Delusion.” A host of competing theories have sprung up between the extremes of creationism and evolution, among them Theistic Evolution and Intelligent Design, but in the 150 years since Wilberforce met Huxley, the controversy has come no closer...
...aspects of human existence?Somewhere between the endless chapters on the life of bees and the endless obsession with the scatological and the priapic is one of the most sinister and compelling men of the twentieth century. But he remains an enigma, both to the reader and to the author exploring him—an author who seems more interested in the allegorical constructs he creates to describe human behavior than the behavior they’re meant to illuminate.Unable to penetrate Hitler’s depths, Mailer pulls back, focusing instead on his devil-narrator and the Hitler family...
...culture, Richardson frequently shows the tell-tale symptoms of what we might call “Reckless Allusion Syndrome” (RAS), in which all eras and aspects of knowledge become fair game for a textual shout-out, regardless of any deep affiliation to the subject. Hints that an author may be suffering from RAS include abrupt transitions to fictional works that James could not plausibly have read; one page in the prologue offers up tidy gems from Sartre and the “great Hasidic masters.” With respect to James’ reaction to the death...