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Salon.com
December 4, 2002
Laura McClure |
What would Mohammed do? Geraldine Brooks, an expert on the role of women in Islam, says the "haters of beauty" behind the Miss World riots misrepresent what is a "pro-sexuality" religion.   |
Reason
November 2007
Rogier van Bakel |
'The Trouble Is the West' Best-selling memoirist and former member of the Dutch parliament, Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam, immigration, civil liberties, and the fate of the West. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Charles Oliver |
Southern Nationalism Exploring the roots of the Civil War... |
Salon.com
June 9, 2000
Stephan Talty |
Slaves of a different color Historians mostly ignore the fact that some white people, too, were enslaved before the Civil War. |
Salon.com
May 30, 2000
David Horowitz |
The latest civil rights disaster Ten reasons why reparations for slavery are a bad idea for black people -- and racist too. |
Salon.com
June 12, 2000
David Horowitz |
Stuck on Oprah Earl Ofari Hutchinson sets up a straw woman to knock down my arguments against reparations, and he fails. |
Salon.com
September 24, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Terror's first victims When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer... |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 16, 2013
Katie Johnston |
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management Harvard-Newcomen Fellow Caitlin C. Rosenthal studies the meticulous records kept by southern plantation owners for measuring the productivity of their slaves, some of which were forerunners of modern management techniques. |
Reason
December 2002
Cathy Young |
Ecumenical Intolerance The sin of extremism is neither common to all Muslims nor limited to Islam. |
ifeminists
August 18, 2004
Dirk Verhofstadt |
Muslims Need Critical Thinking - Irshad Manji With her book The Trouble with Islam the Canadian journalist and lesbian feminist joins the growing number of female Muslims that condemn the oppression of women in the Muslim world. |
Parameters
Winter 2006/2007 |
Review Essays Joseph C. Myers, The Quranic Concept of War... George H. Quester, Asia's Nuclear Dilemma... Larry M. Wortzel, Resolving China and Taiwan's Differences... |
Salon.com
October 30, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
A Jew in the mosque A self-described "average Israeli" talks about his daring journey to pray with the Holy Land's Muslims and Christians -- and why Arafat cannot head a Palestinian state... |
Parameters
Autumn 2006
Raymond L. Bingham |
Bridging the Religious Divide Academicians, east and west, hotly debate the fundaments of the war on terror. In our nation's capital, decision-makers and renowned scholars meet regularly to posit the pros and cons of U.S. foreign policy. |
BusinessWeek
January 15, 2007 |
They're Muslims, And Yankees, Too A book examines the duality of Muslim-American life. |
Reason
December 2001
Charles Paul Freund |
2001 Nights The end of the Orientalist critique... |
Reason
September 2005 |
The Iconoclast Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism, America's place in the world, and his new essay collection Step Across This Line. |
Parameters
Spring 2007
Dale C. Eikmeier |
Qutbism: An Ideology of Islamic-Fascism If we are to know our enemy in the war on terrorism we must first recognize that regardless of the vintage or variety of militant Islam it is the "ideology" of the group or sect that serves as its center of gravity. |
Reason
June 2006
Cathy Young |
The Jihad Against Muslims Radical Islam poses problems for the West, from within and from without. But if our response turns to bigotry directed at all Muslims, it will leave little reason for hope. |
British Heritage
May 2007
Andrea Curry |
Timeline: The Abolition of the Slave Trade Adam Smith predicted in 1763 that power- and profit-hungry human nature would never allow the widespread abolition of slavery. Nevertheless, in at least a partial victory over human nature, in early 1807 the House of Commons voted, 283 to 16, to abolish the British slave trade. |
Salon.com
May 18, 2000
Julia Gracen |
Chain gang Fans of John Norman's novels about the planet Gor create virtual and real-life worlds in which women are slaves. |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Harvey, Sullivan & Groves |
A Clash of Systems: An Analytical Framework to Demystify the Radical Islamist Threat The United States must understand the implications of its leadership in the global system, and how to use this position to demonstrate to moderates in the Islamic world why they should join us rather than attempt to beat us. |
Salon.com
October 18, 2001
M. A. Muqtedar Khan |
A memo to American Muslims It's time for us to search our souls. How can the message of Muhammad become a source of horror and fear? How can Islam inspire thousands of youth to dedicate their lives to killing others? |
ifeminists
December 2, 2003
Rex Curry |
Mistress and Slav? Los Angeles officials have asked that suppliers of computer equipment stop using the terms "master" and "slave," saying such terms are offensive. The terms are sometimes used in reference to computer equipment. |
Civil War Times
April 2006
Gregory J. Wallance |
Dred Scott Decision: The Lawsuit That Started The Civil War Slavery, threats of secession and other factors made America a tinderbox in 1857 -- all it needed was a match. |
Salon.com
October 22, 2001
Max Garrone |
Fundamental problems Religious writer Karen Armstrong explains why Muslim nations have difficulty with democracy and the qualities that all forms of fundamentalism share... |
| AskMen.com |
Virgin Islands Researchers Unveil Slavery Records A collection of slavery records newly available over the Internet may help thousands of people trace their families back to Africa through St. Croix, a former slave-trading hub in the Caribbean. |
Reason
June 2005
Cathy Young |
Behind the Jeffersonian Veneer Thomas Woods, author of the best-selling Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, is a bad ally for libertarians, though his message may appeal to those who can't distinguish the flaws of America from those of outright despotisms. |
ifeminists
March 25, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Laying Down 'the White Woman's Burden' The most recent stereotype to bombard the American psyche is of the Muslim woman who lives veiled and in fear of all men who, by virtue of their maleness, are her oppressors. But is it true in general of Arab-Muslim women who have become the focus of world attention? |
Reason
April 2002
Mark Goldblatt |
America's Black History Given the history of slavery, is black patriotism possible? Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism, by Roger Wilkins, tries to answer that question... |
Reason
April 2007
Amy Sturgis |
Florida's Forgotten Rebels With the Web doc, Rebellion: John Horse and the Black Seminoles, the First Black Rebels to Beat American Slavery, a nonprofessional historian has illustrated not just an important part of the American past but also one of the ways cyberspace is changing how history is studied and taught. |
Parameters
Spring 2005
Christopher Henzel |
The Origins of al Qaeda's Ideology: Implications for US Strategy If American strategists fail to understand and exploit the divide between the establishments and the revolutionaries within Sunni Islam, the United States will play into the radicals' hands, and turn fence-sitting Sunnis into enemies. |
Reason
October 2006
Damon Root |
'A Glorious Liberty Document' The book Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July by James A. Colaiaco, documents Douglass' case for an anti-slavery Constitution. |
Military History Quarterly
Jon Swan |
America's Forgotten Patriots During the American Revolution some of the most ardent Patriots could be found among the colonies' African-Americans. |
Parameters
November 2004
Philip Seib |
The News Media and the "Clash of Civilizations" "For the first time in history, global politics is both multipolar and multicivilizational." As the balance of power among civilizations shifts, the relative influence of the West is declining. |
Smithsonian
September 2005
Paul Raffaele |
Born into Bondage Despite denials by government officials, slavery remains a way of life in the African nation of Niger. |
Civil War Times
May 2007
Chuck Leddy |
Boston Combusts: The Fugitive Slave Case of Anthony Burns An eruption in the nation's abolitionist capital nearly seven years before Fort Sumter foreshadowed the irreconcilable divide between North and South and the fracture to come. |
IDB America
July 2005
Alexandra Russell-Bitting |
"Guiana 1838" Premieres at IDB Cultural Center In his film "Guiana 1838," first-time Guyanese filmmaker Rohit Jagessar tells the story of Asian Indians who were taken to Guyana after slavery was officially abolished in Britain in 1838. |
Salon.com
September 11, 2001
Eric Boehlert, Suzy Hansen & Jeff Stark |
"Our fight is for Jerusalem, not New York" Arab-Americans worry about their loved ones in New York and fear retribution... |
Reason
March 2002 |
Letters Incompatible Islam?... Liberty sans Paradox... |
Reason
December 2002
Sara Rimensnyder |
Sins of the Author Hate and free speech in France |
American History
August 9, 2004
William F. B. Vodrey |
George Washington: Hero of the Confederacy? The cost of political greatness, it's been said, is to be forced to campaign long after your death. That's certainly true of George Washington, whose name, image and legacy were appropriated by the Confederacy. |
Salon.com
September 25, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
The media's Islamic blind spot News reports are obsessing on how the terrorist attacks happened, but not why... |
TIME Asia
May 9, 2011 |
Inbox Readers offer comments on stories dealing with the Egyptian revolution, the Ryan U. S. budget proposal, and the Civil War. |
BusinessWeek
February 21, 2005
Stanley Reed |
Mosque And State: Just How Close? Iraq's new government may be more influenced by Islam than the U.S. hoped. |
TIME Asia
August 29, 2011 |
Inbox Journey Through Change... Islam's Global Identity... There's More to Turkey... A Pirate's Life... etc. |
Salon.com
September 11, 2001
Janelle Brown |
"Purge our society," online bigots shout Post-disaster threats and expressions of racism bubble up on the Web... |
Salon.com
July 20, 2000
Philip A. Klinkner |
Will whites ever vote to improve life for black Americans? David Horowitz called me anti-American, anti-white and ignorant for saying no, but history says I'm right. |
Salon.com
May 13, 2002
Laura Miller |
Death rattle? Sept. 11 may have been the last gasp of militant Islam -- but while it's dying, it could strike again and again... |
Smithsonian
February 2007
Whitney Dangerfield |
Family Ties African Americans use scientific advances to trace their roots. |
