Seven Indians among top 100 intellectuals

""Anintellectual is someone whose mind watches itself, said French-Algerianwriter-philosopher Albert Camus; turns out that someone is keepingtrack of intellectuals too. The latest issue of the influential Foreign Policy magazine has identified the world's Top 100 "public...

Why Does Norman Podhoretz Hate America?

"Norman Podhoretz's new book, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, is a hate-filled, anti-American book of the first order. Podhoretz hates every American who does not support the neoconservatives' views, the foreign policy they have devised, and the...

The Seven Dimensions

"Unsurprisingly, Larry Siedentop's book Democracy in Europe is perhaps the most ‎explicit attempt to elevate democracy to the status of religion: he identifies democracy ‎with Christianity. " Democracy is a religion, just like nationalism, Marxism, Judaism, Christianity,...

Beating an orderly retreat: It's no longer a question of if or when the US le...

"GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, has promised to return to Washington in September to report on the outcome of his surge strategy. I hope he will say that sectarian killings, bombings and U.S. casualties are all down. But even if he does, I doubt he can...

Nanny State Neo-Cons

"One of the fundamental goals of neo-conservatism, in its formative period, was to show that ‘efforts to seek social justice’ invariably leave societies ‘worse off than before’.[According to the neo-cons, it is wiser to concentrate on the symptoms,...