Monthly Archive
- December 2009
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The Town That Chocolate Built
2009: The British confectioner Cadbury is fighting for its corporate life as Kraft predator drones have targeted the company for a hostile takeover.This has led to a great outpouring of support laced with nationalistic horror ("Dairy Milk owned by the Americans—Never!"). Cadbury has become a symbol of how the... ...
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Gitmo, Now and Forever
2009: Word came from the Obama administration this week that many of the prisoners detained indefinitely at the American prison in Guantanamo Bay would be transported to a prison in rural Illinois where they will continue to be indefinitely detained. The Christian Science Monitor reported on the difficulties of
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On War and Being Just
2009: From President Obama’s speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.
War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man. At the dawn of history, its morality was not questioned; it was simply a fact, like drought or disease—the manner in which tribes and then civilizations sought power...
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Smoke and Manufactures
2009: The world's climate and energy experts are gathered this week in Copenhagen to debate the righteousness of an international deal that would cap carbon dioxide emissions. The idea is to make carbon-intensive industrial processes more expensive, discouraging the creation of electricity by burning coal, and instead making cleaner options... ...
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Playing Our Game
1941: In an op-ed for the New York Times, author James Bradley explains how the foreign policy of Theodore Roosevelt led him to admire the willingness of the Japanese to launch a surprise attack on the Russians in 1904, an attack which was used as a model for Pearl... ...
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We Go Together
2009: Born on the same day near the same hour on June 13, 1935, conceptual artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude never flew in a plane together. For two people seemingly fused together and yet fiercely independent, one of the great misconceptions about their art was that the artist was solely Christo.... ...
