Joomla! site syndication http://www.jamestownproject.org 2010-09-10T00:33:53+01:00 http://www.jamestownproject.org http://www.jamestownproject.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2008-04-07T18:12:02+01:00 http://www.jamestownproject.org http://www.jamestownproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=161&Itemid=78 By Mark Jefferson Twice in our history Presidents of the United States of America took the battlefield and assumed direct command of military forces in combat. text/html 2008-04-07T17:26:13+01:00 http://www.jamestownproject.org http://www.jamestownproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=160&Itemid=78 By Mark Jefferson Among many of my politically progressive friends, the word democracy is possessed of magical, if not sacred meaning. The mere utterance of the word seems among some Progressives to function as a kind of evil spirit dispelling incantation, to be recited as much as the circumstances require in an effort to preserve the fragile experiment which is our democratic Republic. Only say the word, and we shall be healed. text/html 2008-03-17T17:55:11+01:00 http://www.jamestownproject.org http://www.jamestownproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147&Itemid=63 by Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, long-time pastor of presidential candidate Barack Obama, has caused quite a stir. Indeed, the last several days have been dominated by vignettes of Wright’s more inflammatory sermons. These sermons have been followed by impassioned denouncements and repudiations from all corners. And, in some cases, rightly so. Claims, for instance, that the U.S. government conspired to place HIV/AIDS into the black community – absent even a gesture of proof – strike me as irresponsible hyperbole. And, I certainly would not have wanted to have explained Wright’s “Ridin’ Dirty” double entendre to my seven-year old son had I visited his church that day. text/html 2008-03-02T17:00:00+01:00 http://www.jamestownproject.org http://www.jamestownproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=145&Itemid=61 By David Silbey How the United States treats the world depends greatly on how the United States perceives the world. Shaping those perceptions are the values and ideas that dominate American home life. We bring with us to the world the baggage of domesticity. Americans interact and have interacted with the world—whether individually or a whole—through the filter of their own beliefs. In a strange way, we do not meet and mix with the actual world, but with our perceptions of that world. To add another layer to this issue, not only do Americans bring their perceptions to the world, they bring their societies. Americans abroad—whether military or civilian—work to rebuild their own, familiar culture and communities when they are abroad. They struggle with strangeness and aim to replace it with familiarity. text/html 2007-07-31T10:05:56+01:00 http://www.jamestownproject.org http://www.jamestownproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=127&Itemid=64 by Paul C. Taylor First David Brooks writes a muddled column complaining about people who complain about economic inequality. (Eric Alterman provides links to the column and to several critical responses, including his own, here: http://mediamatters.org/altercation/200707300003). (http://mediamatters.org/altercation/200707300003%29.) Now Nick Kristof gets in on the act. If the Times wants to shill for conservative economic views, it could at least get actual economists to do it.