The Morning After: 11/3/2010
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Rev. James Kubicki, S.J. on The Difference Network at Marquette University
Rev. James Kubicki, S.J. discussed the power of prayer in working for social justice and the importance of acting in accordance with the social justice issue for which one prays.
Benign Violations: Making Immoral Behavior Funny
Benign Violations: Making Immoral Behavior Funny
John Law: Proto-Keynesian [Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith. An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.] Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love Feedback workshop session for staff Balkans 2020: The Ministerial Debate Responses to 9-11: The United States, Europe, and the Middle East Cause for War? Assessing the Bush Administration's Case Against Iraq - Part 2 Building Resilient Infrastructure to Combat Terrorism: Lessons from September 11th Human Rights & the US State Department Weapons of Mass Confusion: Assessing the True Risks Iraq: What Now? The Militarization of Science and Space Airline Safety and the Electoral College How Can We Improve Disaster Response? Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons 1 Learning to learn
Notre Dame OpenCourseware (OCW) offers free online educational resources for the course "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love" in the Department of Philosophy. Built around Plato's Symposium, Shakespeare, Catholic writings, and several movies, this course explores the nature of romance and erotic love. We will examine such topics as sexuality, marriage, and procreation with an eye towards how we can be better at being in love.
Feedback workshop session for staff
'Balkans 2020: The Ministerial Debate' marks the launch of the Balkan International Affairs Programme at LSE IDEAS. The foreign ministers of Bulgaria and Serbia will identify the issues the region faces today and offer their vision of the Balkans in 2020. Can present challenges endanger the region's fragile stability or, will the Balkans forever shed the infamous attribute of being the "powder keg of Europe"? Vuk Jeremic was sworn in as minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Serbia on Ma
Responses to 9-11: The United States, Europe, and the Middle East
Cause for War? Assessing the Bush Administration's Case Against Iraq - Part 2
Building Resilient Infrastructure to Combat Terrorism: Lessons from September 11th
Ambassador Shattuck provides insights from his experiences as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights in the Clinton Administration. Highlights include his analysis of the global events in the post-Cold War period which he states foreshadowed the attacks of September 11th . He defines two competing forces, the forces of integration, (
Panelists gathered for this discussion agree that when setting weapons policy it is counterproductive to lump weapons together. The dangers from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons need to understood individually. Owen Cote says nuclear weapons, with their large-scale production process and instant lethal capacity, belong in one categ
The gloves come off in this biting review of Bush Administration policy in “post-war Iraq.” Juan Cole believes the administration acted on a fundamental misunderstanding, imagining that by toppling the Hussein regime, all Iraqis “would be happy.” After the U.S. destroyed Hussein’s security apparatus, preexisting constituen
Chomsky launches a savage, two-pronged assault on national economic policies and efforts at “global domination….By now the stakes are so high that issues of survival arise,” says Chomsky.
The basic principle underlying our current economy is “to make rich people happy and make everybody else frightened.” Chom
Somehow Arnold Barnett manages to massage the subject of airline accidents into a breezy and sometimes comforting talk on statistical probabilities. In decades of research, he has taken firm hold of the metrics of measuring mortality in flight. While there are many ways of looking at the grim numbers, Barnett has de
Even if the U.S. draws the right lessons from Hurricane Katrina, panelists suggest, the nation may still be caught short in the next disaster.
In some areas of government, Kenneth Oye points out, “weaknesses can go on for a long time because you don’t confront a reality test. Katrina was a reality test wi
Joseph Cirincione delivers an energetic and at times impassioned primer on the standoff with Iran on its nuclear program, drawn in part from his latest book, The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia University Press, Spring 2007).
He offers a succinct ‘equation’ to describe what drives nat
How do we learn? Understanding ‘how’ is the key to learning more effectively. This unit looks at the three main categories of theories: the acquisitive, constructivist and experiential models of learning. There is no right way to learn but developing an active approach will ensure that you are open to new ideas.
