Archive for the 'ideas'

• Metz on the Afghan Surge

December 4th, 2009 by zen

Posted in academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, COIN, counterinsurgency, Failed State, foreign policy, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, islamist, military, national security, security, SSI, state building, state failure, steven metz, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, tribes, war | 3 comments

• Brief Metacognition

December 1st, 2009 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, brain, cognition, cognitive goods, consilience, counterintuitive, creativity, education, Epistemology, ideas, intellectuals, intelligence, logic, metacognition, psychology, social science, teaching, theory | 7 comments

• Guest Post: The Duel of Ali ibn Abu Talib with Amru ibn Abd Wudd

November 30th, 2009 by zen

Posted in academia, al qaida, analytic, arab world, Charles Cameron, extremists, ideas, intellectuals, islamic world, islamist, mideast, myth, non-state actors, primary loyalties, psychology, Religion, social science, terrorism, Theology, theory | 13 comments

• Three Questions With Steve Pressfield

November 25th, 2009 by zen

Posted in art, authors, creativity, culture, feedback, fun, historians, ideas, Questions, reading, steven pressfield, tribes, Writing | 4 comments

• Still too Busy to Blog Properly….But Hey, Look What I’m Reading!

November 24th, 2009 by zen

Posted in academia, authors, biography, book, capitalism, culture, economics, globalization, historians, history, horizontal thinking, howard bloom, ideas, intellectuals, islamic world, nixon, politics, primary loyalties, Religion, rick perlstein, science, shia, social science, society, synthesis, Theology, vali nasr | 5 comments