I was able to attend the Kennedy Center Lecture this afternoon given by David Simpson from UC-Davis. He spoke mainly on how the American media hasn’t done well in confronting the brutal facts of the events of the last decade, particularly 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in terms of human suffering and atrocities. While he noted that he … continue reading: David Simpson: “Running from Liberty Plaza and Running in Baghdad”
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 Comments are closed  Kennedy Center Lectures  David Simpson, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer It’s been a while since I’ve written about the books I’ve been reading, and I’ve actually managed to finish three books in the last month or so. How Soccer Explains the World: an unlikely theory of globalization by Franklin Foer Read more like a travelogue from the viewpoint of a soccer fan rather than a theory of globalization. If you’re huge into the … continue reading: What I’ve been reading |
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