Talking Rights

A provocative headline, clearly. But Jonah Goldberg’s excellent opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times puts it starkly. Pulling American troops from Iraq will almost certainly lead to a genocide.
In the words of New York Times reporter John Burns, quoted in the piece, “It seems to me incontrovertible that the most likely outcome of an [...]

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In May, I posted on an exhibit currently in Durham called Bodies: The Exhibition. At the city’s newest mall, the show features “plastinated” bodies posed to show the workings of muscles, ligaments, bones and internal organs. “Plastination” preserves living tissue, and these are real human beings.

As I noted, the problems with the exhibit are numerous. [...]

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District Six 2
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Speaking of memorials, Cape Town’s District Six museum is one of the best and most powerful museums I have ever visited. Located on the edge of what was once the city’s bustling and integrated downtown, the museum preserves the memory of a community obliterated by “whites only” laws.
In 1966, District [...]

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Amy Biehl Monument
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Too often in talk about what happens after violence do people pay serious attention to the way people memorialize the lost. Memorials can be powerful (like the now iconic Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC), macabre (the Rwanda churches), a miss (for me, the Berlin Holocaust Memorial was a disappointment) [...]

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