Monthly Archives For February 2012

Beyond The Mid East

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Recent years have made it hard to consider extreme elements in the Muslim world as anything but dangerous, tyrannical, and extreme, but recent attacks across the Middle East have shed light on their newest victims – Christians.

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Rethinking Occupation

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Rethinking Occupation

“In New Mexico, student and other activists in Alburquerque decided to alter the ‘occupy’name out of respect for the area’s indigenous communities, which have been forcibly occupied for centuries.”—Rethinking Schools magazine, Winter 2011-2012

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Anthropologists Sink Own Careers

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“When the leadership in a field threatens careers if one does anything to help the U. S. Army better understand cultures and peoples in order to conduct the most precise, effective, and moral warfare it is no wonder that few anthropologists find the fortitude to cross the party line.”—Dan G. Cox, associate professor of political science at the School of Advanced Military Studies.

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