Category Archives: Politics

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs spoke yesterday evening at Seattle Town Hall about his new book The Price of Civilization:  Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity.  For anyone not familiar with his work, Jeffrey Sachs is about as far left as you get … Continue reading →

Pamela Constable gave a talk at the UW Law School this evening to the Seattle World Affairs Council about her latest book, Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself.   Constable is a deputy foreign editor at the Washington Post.  … Continue reading →

Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, gave a talk this evening sponsored by the Seattle World Affairs Council. I haven’t read the book yet, but here’s a synopsis from this evening’s … Continue reading →

The Elections Desk here at the Katz News Network (KNN) is now prepared to make a call on the forthcoming Canadian general election to be held May 2, 2011. Most respectable news organizations wait for the polls to close and … Continue reading →

This evening I attended a talk given by Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, presented by the Seattle World Affairs Council.   Here’s a brief write-up.  Much has been made of the role of … Continue reading →

Here’s another fabulous TED talk from Hans Rosling.  This one’s about progress on UN Millenium Development Goal #4 – reducing child mortality.  As usual, Rosling combines amazing data, stunning graphics and animated commentary.

I agree with author (and my former writing instructor) Lesley Hazleton, who says in her post Burning Jesus, that Florida pastor Terry Jones deserves to be completely ignored.  However, I’m not sure the mainstream media could or even should ignore … Continue reading →

Great article by Harvard professor Harvey Cox in the Boston Globe, here.

Interesting special report in the Economist a couple of weeks ago — I’m forever behind in my reading — on the spread of mobile phones in emerging markets.  "In places with bad roads, unreliable postal services, few trains and parlous … Continue reading →

Another great TED talk; this one given by Parag Khanna, author of The Second World.  In it, Khanna looks at our increasingly fragmented geopolitical map and suggests we focus less on borders and more on the lines that cross borders … Continue reading →