x

Monthly Archives: March 2008

Fifteen Eighty Four

Menu

Number of articles per page:

  • 19 Mar 2008
    Marci A. Hamilton

    Crawford, PA Cannot Charge Known Sex Offender

    Marci Hamilton is a top expert in US church-state relations. She is also involved in another passionate fight — the abolishing of Statues of Limitations for victims of childhood sexual abuse — laws which wind up protecting some of the most dangerous offenders. She’ll be keeping us up to speed on important developments and decisions […]

    Read More
  • 19 Mar 2008

    James Winn Speaks about War Poets

    Check out video of James Winn’s book launch here. Discuss.

    Read More
  • 19 Mar 2008

    Human Rights, Trade, and the 2008 Presidential Elections

    President Bush is not the only president, or even the first one, to favor trade expansion over human rights protection. Susan Aaronson, expert in the intersection of trade and human rights, seeks to flesh out Bush’s views on how trade affects human rights, with a look at what this means for the current candidates. See […]

    Read More
  • 19 Mar 2008

    After Bush: Iraq, Foreign Policy, and the Candidates

    The New York Times’ recent article on McCain’s visit to Iraq highlights a sticking-point for the presidential candidates’ campaigns – the war factor. But will anything really change? Our own Sadhika Salariya has been working with a couple of authors who have their own ideas about what the next president will bring. “As commander-in-chief, I […]

    Read More
  • 17 Mar 2008
    Nick Smith

    Parsing Spitzer’s Apology

    Nick Smith is professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire with a particular interest in how apologies work. He’s also a former trial lawyer for a major New York law firm. What does this mean for us? An unusually close look at Spitzer’s oft-sound-bite-ed public apology for his involvement with a prostitution ring. […]

    Read More
  • 17 Mar 2008
    Kristie Macrakis

    Spy-Tech Mondays

    Kristie Macrakis, author of Seduced by Secrets brings us some of the gadgets of the Stasi’s hidden spy-world, one photo at a time. There are a lot of cool images surrounding the hidden world of espionage, many of them surprising. Hidden in plain sight, in a mind-boggling array of forms, spy gadgets have a clever […]

    Read More
  • 14 Mar 2008
    Charles Bamforth

    Beer vs. Wine Fridays

    Grape vs. Grain author Charles Bamforth weighs in on Fridays with his ideas about the relationship between beer and wine, as well as some little-known facts. I was recently in a restaurant with a bunch of guys from a well-known North American brewing company. We each ordered their flagship lager and were appalled by what […]

    Read More
  • 14 Mar 2008

    Weekly Link Round-up

    It’s Friday! I don’t know about you folks, but I’ll be relaxing with the family. Always nice to see them in NYC. What’s happened here last week? Read on: Nick Smith, author of I Was Wrong has a busy few days ahead of him: Sunday, he’ll be on CBC News Sunday‘s segment on “The Art […]

    Read More

Number of articles per page: