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June 22, 2010

Jun Morikawa — Whaling in Japan

This week in a conference in Morocco nations will consider whether to sanction commercial whale hunts for the first time in twenty-five years. According to an AP report, this would provide a compromise to fix a fractured regulatory system in...

June 21, 2010

Laura Katz Olson — Can the Expansion of Medicaid Coverage Fulfill the Promise of Health Care Reform?

One of the key components in the recent health care reform bill was the extension of medicaid to cover low-income individuals. But is this the best way to provide health care? This is the question Laura Katz Olson, author of...

June 18, 2010

Sam Girgus — Conversations with scholars of American popular culture

Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture 1900 to Present recently interview Sam Girgus, author of Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine, in their series of conversations with scholars of American popular culture. As you...

June 17, 2010

Vicken Cheterian on the crisis in Kyrgyzstan

“For if Kyrgyzstan fails as a state, and inter-ethnic violence … is not contained, the resulting security vacuum in Kyrgyzstan could threaten the fragile stability of central Asia as a whole.” — Vicken Cheterian, Open Democracy In an essay entitled...

June 16, 2010

Interview with Keri Walsh and Sylvia Whitman

Continuing with the Bloomsday theme, here is a conversation/interview that was first published on the excellent site Maitresse between Keri Walsh, editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach, Sylvia Whitman, the present-day owner of the legendary Parisian bookstore Shakespeare &...

June 16, 2010

Keri Walsh — Bloomsday in Paris

The following post is by Keri Walsh, editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach: “What do you do?” Joyce inquired. I told him about Shakespeare and Company. The name, and mine too, seemed to amuse him, and a charming smile...

June 15, 2010

Keri Walsh on James Joyce and Sylvia Beach

We continue our focus on Bloomsday with Keri Walsh’s recent and fascinating interview on Writers & Company. In the interview Walsh, the editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach, discusses Syliva Beach and her remarkable relationship with James Joyce. Beach...

June 15, 2010

Ken Posner: What will be the next black swan?

Yesterday, Ken Posner, author of Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility, was a featured guest on CNBC to discuss his book and how the government, financial institutions, and investors can best prepare...

June 14, 2010

Brush up on James Joyce with Marilyn Monroe.

With Bloomsday, just a couple of days away, there’s not much time to brush up on your Joyce. However, a good place to start is James Joyce: A Critical Guide, by Lee Spinks, whose cover includes this image of Marilyn...

June 11, 2010

John V. Lindsay and television

In addition to America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York, a museum exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, there have also been a series of symposiums exploring the Lindsay’s mayoralty and its...

June 10, 2010

Claudio Ivan Remeseira on the immigration debate and Walt Whitman

“The immigration debate has become the moral equivalent of the fugitive slave law debates of ante-bellum America.”—Claudio Ivan Remeseira In a recent post for The Huffington Post Claudio Ivan Remeseira, editor of Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook , looks back...

June 9, 2010

Lisa Keller: Time in a bottle and the newest addition to Trafalgar Square

In her book Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London, Lisa Keller examines among other issues the critical development of sanctioned free speech, controlled public assembly, and new urban regulations in London and New York....