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Praying with Lior
An engrossing, wrenching and tender documentary film, PRAYING WITH LIOR introduces Lior Liebling, also called "the little rebbe." Lior has Down syndro…
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Manufacturing Dissent
Manufacturing Dissent is a controversial, well-rounded portrait of Michael Moore the man, and how he uses documentaries to affect political change. This “muckra…
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ICT and Development / Crisis Response
I just traded emails with Paul Margie, a friend from college who now works at the United Nations Foundation. He's set up several projects funded by Ted Tur…
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The Conciliator
I've wanted to post some thoughts arising from Larissa MacFarquhar's article on Obama ever since it came out in the May 7 New Yorker. It offers some pa…
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Is there a 102(b) in your 401(k)?
Let me clarify: '102(b)' refer to a portion the US statute for patentability of inventions, and '401(k)' refers to the ubiquitous retirement ac…
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The imperial presidency the founders feared
Adam Cohen in yesterday's Times: "Given how intent the president is on expanding his authority, it is startling to recall how the Constitution’s framer…
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Why do they hate us?
I found this piece by Mohsin Hamid in the Washington Post over the weekend particularly insightful (not only because it begins with a focus on my hometown.) An…
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Elizabeth Townsend Gard: Legal Ed Innovator
CIS fellow and newly-arrived Tulane law professor Elizabeth Townsend Gard was profiled recently as an innovator in the legal education field, and specifically f…
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Every time I give up on David Brooks...
...he comes back and says something nuanced: "...most political and social disputes grow out of differing theories about the self, and I find Hofstadter’s…
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A procedural knife fight
Carl Hulse in today's New York Times: "...the clash between the two veteran senators is evidence of a larger breakdown in relations in the Senate, a de…
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my iPhone day
After much wrestling with my past chagrin at being the disappointed early-adopter, I broke down yesterday and got my iPhone. It's wonderful.…
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The Jihad Online
I'm in the process of completing an article that discusses whether and to what extent Muslim-Americans have altered their use of the Internet, after the 9/1…