Eben Moglen: Snowden and the Future + Moglen’s Written Manifesto on Secrecy & Privacy (Privacy is Citizen Secrecy)

October 9, October 30, November 13 and December 4; 2013. Columbia Law School in association with Software Freedom Law Center From approximately 17:11 in NSA Spying talk 3 of 4 by Prof. Eben Moglen, a presentation sponsored by the Software Freedom Law Center of the Columbia Law School. “The anonymity of reading is the central, …

Francis, Jesuit & Pope: Happy, Open, Thinking, Women on His Mind (Need for a Theology of Women)

Phi Beta Iota: It is increasingly clear that The Most Holy Father Francis, a Jesuit, is likely to be one of the most important voices of this century. This one interview appears to capture the essence of the man, a sinner blessed and chosen by God, to help us all discern and then carry out …

Review (Guest): This Republic of Suffering – Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust Closure, or does the Suffering just still go on … ?, March 12, 2014 By Herbert L Calhoun “paulocal” Quietly, this is an amazing book about the back side of war — the side we pretend not to know is really there at all — the ugly side, the painful side. It …