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Vol. 11, No. 1, 2012

     
 
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CONTENTS
  1. Editorial
DECONSTRUCTING THE STATE by David Solway
"The State is a fungible hallucination to which we have accorded our political obeisance."
  2. Martin Luther King
THE DREAM IN THE BALANCE by Gary Olson
Not one of his poignant statements is chiseled into the new MLK Memorial wall. Why?
  3. Sexual Healing
BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE
Transsexuality: getting beyond the dress codes.
  4. Vanity Fear
CHASING BEAUTY by Lisa Hickey
I want beauty not to matter.
  5. Blogospherics
RAPE CULTURE AND OTHER FEMINIST MYTHS by QRG
If rapists are to be cured they must be treated as human beings.
  6. Cell Phonephilia
FEAR AND TREMBLING IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING by Louis René Beres
The digital heart is a lonely hunter.
  7. Opinion
BELIEVING IN JOHNNY CASH by Paul Wallace
In the singer's stories where the truth lies.
  8.

Opinion
TOO MANY BOOKS by Michael Ruse
Worse than burning a book is not reading it. That was then.


  9.

Essay
CASTE THE FIRST STONE by Robert J. Lewis
Class and the caste system: in defense of inequality.


  10.
Philosophy
THE DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM by Edward Sri
Can ethics be rationalized? Is the man of conviction the new pariah on the block?
  11.

Music
SIX DEGREES OF JAZZ
Jill Barber: another Canadian diva on the stairway to stardom.


  12.

Art
BHUPAT DUDI - FOR THE WOMEN OF INDIA
Uneducated girl-child working the fields of the feudal lord is India's shame.


  13.

Film Review
LE HAVRE reviewed by Robert Hershorn
Another masterpiece from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki.


  14.

Essay
WHAT IS IMPORTANT by Louis René Beres
"The man who laughs has simply not heard the horrible news."


  15.

Book Review
THE COMING REVOLUTION (WALID PHARES) reviewed by Farzana Hassan
The Arab Spring as 9/11's silver lining: revolt against one of the largest human prisons in the history of mankind (fundamentalism).


     

 

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