Hawks are constantly drawing dubious comparisons to World War II, the “good war,” in order to pressure Americans into initiating other wars nothing like it.
For hawks, it is always 1938.
But as Michael Hirsh writes in National Journal, “Bashar al-Assad, a tinpot dictator who is fighting only for his own survival, is no Hitler. He’s not set to overrun an entire continent. And the ‘lessons of Munich’ and the dangers of appeasement are generally overdrawn.”
The Web That Wasn’t
Google Tech Talks : October, 23 2007
Alex Wright, New York Times Digital
Eugene Garfield:
- Founder of Science Citation Index
- Forefather of Pagerank
Body Rayward, “Visions of Xanadu”
Ted Nelson:
- he was about half-crazy, but he was also kind of a genius
- 37:00
Google Backrub did back links
The Greatest Arab Historian: Ibn Khaldun
Generally considered the greatest Arab historian and the father of Sociology and the sciences of History, Ibn Khaldun (in full Abu Zayd ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun) developed one of the earliest nonreligious philosophies of history in his masterwork, the Muqaddimah.
Albert O. Hirschman: Book by Princeton’s Jeremy Adelman
Economics evolved during Hirschman’s lifetime into a discipline that’s all about optimization, preferably expressed in a mathematical model. His influence on his own field thus seems scant. And while he had lots of fans among historians, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists, it’s hard to detect anything like a “Hirschman school” out there.
If only there were. Hirschman believed in the potential for societal improvement, steering a course between leftist visions of a perfect world and conservative concerns that reforms always backfire. An intellectual and political environment where that was the dominant attitude would definitely be an improvement.