Archive for December, 2008

• The U.S. is Not Going to Disengage from the Mideast

December 16th, 2008 by zen

Posted in foreign policy, geopolitics, glittering eye, globalization, intellectuals, iran, iraq, islamic world, islamist, national security, non-state actors, Outside the beltway, schuler, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, terrorism | 5 comments

• On Vanished Elites

December 16th, 2008 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, analogy, anglosphere, historiography, history, legitimacy | 5 comments

• Obscurely Related but Interesting Nonetheless

December 12th, 2008 by zen

Posted in 21st century, academia, cognition, creativity, education, ideas, intellectuals, medici effect, organizations, scoble, Stigmergy, teaching, theory, web 2.0, wikinomics | 8 comments

• The Chicago Way is Incompatible with Gravitas

December 10th, 2008 by zen

Posted in chicago, democratic party, obama, politics | 12 comments

• The Elite as a Tribe

December 9th, 2008 by zen

Posted in academia, cognition, education, horizontal thinking, intellectuals, intelligence, obama, politics, tribes | 30 comments