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Author Archives: James Carroll

Ignorance and Malice: What Joshua Keating’s “If It Happened There” Says About Journalism Here

January 17, 2014by James Carroll 1 Comment

If you were one of the 120,000 people on Facebook who “liked” the first article in Joshua Keating’s Slate series, “If It Happened There”, then you probably found the satire on foreign affairs […]

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Book & Movie Reviews, Politics & Culture

The Anguished, Diasporic Asian Nationalism in America: Local Musings & Global Politics

October 1, 2013by James Carroll Leave a comment

“There is probably more conflict”, my politics professor likes to say, “between Israelis and Palestinians on College Ave., than there is in the West Bank”. Yet most of the combatants […]

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Politics & Culture

The Left’s New Islamophilic Homophobia: Book Review of “Terrorist Assemblages”

August 23, 2013by James Carroll Leave a comment

If there’s one thing that leftists of all stripes like, it’s “solidarity”. This is when people from different communities come together for the purpose of defeating a common oppressor, whether […]

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Book & Movie Reviews, Politics & Culture

George Zimmerman & Some Personal Reflections on the Disruptive Reality of Multiracial Americans

August 2, 2013by James Carroll Leave a comment

I am used to watching ethnic conflict from afar: reading about Tibetan riots in the newspapers, and thinking about policy proposals to address structural inequalities. But when the verdict of “not […]

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Politics & Culture

The Unread Notes of Tibetan Self-Immolators: Questioning the Popular Consensus

July 12, 2013by James Carroll Leave a comment

For better or for worse, an essential part of the news writing craft involves the judicious use of space. In headlines, this compression involves dropping articles, appositives, and adjectives. In […]

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Politics & Culture, Religion & Secularism

1984, Today: The Rise of “Truth Commissions” in Postwar Transitions

July 2, 2013by James Carroll Leave a comment

The flight of Edward Snowden from the United States has raised some awkward questions for the American establishment. Could the US, which so deftly portrayed itself as a victim of Chinese hacking […]

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Politics & Culture

Why we Need the Freedom Not to Believe: Lessons from China

June 8, 2013by James Carroll 10 Comments

The recent persecution of atheists in Muslim-majority countries like Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh has prompted some hand-wringing and mild-mannered protests in secularist communities. Nonbelievers, as a rule, just don’t think of themselves […]

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