Daedalus back issues from March 2005:
Academic freedom under fire.(Protection to classroom debate; political freedom at reasearch universities)
Mar 22, 2005; ... Today, a half century after the 1954 House Un-American Activities Committee held congressional hearings on communists in American universities, faculty members are witnessing once again a rising tide of anti-intellectualism and threats to academic freedom. (1) They are increasingly ...
The unconscious colossus: limits of (& alternatives to) American empire.
Mar 22, 2005; ... What is an empire? In the words of one of the few modern historians to attempt a genuinely comparative study of empires, it is <Pre> First and foremost, a very great power that has left its mark on the international relations of an era ... a polity that rules over wide ...
Empire & 'civilizing' missions, past & present.(Modern imperialism; empires)
Mar 22, 2005; ... 'Imperialism' is a frustratingly vague term, but a useful one--and not only for outside observers and protesting subjects. (1) Historically, rulers have often sought to make their empires visible as such by following regional--and in recent centuries, global--standards for acting ...
Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace.(Empires, history; American imperialism)
Mar 22, 2005; ... For at least two generations, 'empire' and 'imperialism' have been dirty words. Already by 1959, when neither the French nor the British Empire had yet quite ceased to exist, Raymond Aaron dismissed imperialism as a "name given by rivals, or spectators, to the diplomacy of a great ...
Empire: a blunt tool for democratization.
Mar 22, 2005; ... On its face, using military occupation as a tool to promote democratization is about as intuitive as forcing people to take a self-improvement class to learn how to be more spontaneous. And yet the two most recent U.S. administrations, though on opposite ends of the political spectrum, ...
Emancipation & empire, from Cromwell to Karl Rove.
Mar 22, 2005; ... 'Empire' only became a dirty word in the twentieth century. Prior to this, educated Europeans and North Americans believed that while there were certainly bad empires (usually Eastern and despotic in character), there were also good empires--notably that of Rome, the cradle of Christian ...
The Ottoman experience.
Mar 22, 2005; ... <Pre> When those states which have been acquired are accustomed to live at liberty under their own laws, there are three ways of holding them. The first is to despoil them; the second is to go and live there in person; the third is to allow them to live under their own laws, ...
Imperialism & the roots of the Great War.
Mar 22, 2005; ... In history textbooks, the period from 1871 to 1914 is known as the age of imperialism. During this period, the European powers extended their control over the rest of the world to an extent never seen before. In 1870, Dutch control over the Netherlands Indies was effectively limited to ...
Beyond imperialism: the new internationalism.
Mar 22, 2005; ... Much has been said about the United States having become, or having to become, an empire. To provide the chaotic world, especially in the wake of the Cold War, with some semblance of law and order, it has been asserted, the international community needs a new world order, a global empire, ...
Lesson.(Brief Article)(Poem)
Mar 22, 2005; ... <Pre> Because what is outer is inner there is no outer there is no inner-- I am trying to get this straight And what the long sentence assembled ...
The Choice.(Brief Article)(Poem)
Mar 22, 2005; ... <Pre> When you look at the sky, when you look at the stars, God is not there. Someone in hell is sitting beside you on the train. Somebody burning unnoticed walks past in the street. Sailors in snow-- God can do what is impossible, but God can only do what is impossible. ...
Four short pieces: King Log in exile, post-colonial, Salome was a dancer & Take charge.(Short Story)
Mar 22, 2005; ... King Log in exile After he had been deposed by the frogs, King Log lay disconsolately among the ferns and dead leaves a short distance from the pond. He'd had only enough energy to roll that far: he'd been King of the Pond for so long that he was heavily waterlogged. In the ...
Dialogue between Barry Mazur & Peter Pesic: on mathematics, imagination & the beauty of numbers.(Interview)
Mar 22, 2005 ... PETER PESIC: Many intelligent people only see in mathematics a wasteland of dreary formalism, a mind-numbing expanse of theorems and proofs expressed in very abstract language. Doubtless this is partly due to the way it is taught, but such teaching is widespread, the product of good ...
Michael Hechter: on the 2004 presidential election.
Mar 22, 2005; ... To many observers, the outcome of the recent American election was a shock. Prior to the election, unemployment had been stubbornly high, economic growth was faltering, the chief justification for invading Iraq had been discredited, the occupation itself was increasingly troubled, and the ...
Morris E. Fine & Peter W. Voorhees: on the evolving curriculum in materials science & engineering.
Mar 22, 2005; ... In 1950, materials science and engineering did not exist as a university department. Instead, there were separate departments for metallurgical engineering and ceramic engineering. Polymers were taught in chemistry and chemical engineering departments. Solid-state physics was a ...