June 2016

Mohammed Kadalah
The Representation of the Syrian Revolution in Literature
June 28, 2016
It was a winter night when I sat in a café with four friends and heard on the news that Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, president of Tunisia, had...
Aqil Shah
Wishes are not Evidence: Why Drone Blowback in Pakistan is Still a Myth
June 21, 2016
Madiha Tahir and Mahvish Ahmad, graduate students at Columbia and Cambridge Universities respectively, have responded to my article on...
Andrew Ryder
Is Masculinity a Death Cult?
June 16, 2016
Contradictory facts and impressions about Omar Mateen, the murderer of 49 people in Orlando, Florida, continue to circulate. Any consistent...
Andrew Levy
Artifice in the Calm Damages: 5 Poems
June 16, 2016
Editor's Preface: “We’re not people, we’re lithographs” writes Andrew Levy in “The Putative Tiring of Light.” And the question, then, is...
Flavio Rizzo
Hikikomori: The Postmodern Hermits of Japan
June 14, 2016
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die -Matsuo Bashō After years of self-imposed isolation, literally having never...
Madiha Tahir
Drone Blowback is a Bad Argument. Here's Why
June 4, 2016
In a recent think piece “Drone blowback in Pakistan is a myth. Here’s why”, political scientist Aqil Shah argues that blowback from...
Fabio Andrés Díaz
Colombia: Sovereignty, Legitimacy and Peacebuilding
June 1, 2016
In the past week, several promising reports emerged regarding the current peace process between the FARC-EP and the Colombian Government...