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MONDAYS AT 3QD

Though we are a filter blog (providing links) on all other days, on Mondays we have only original writing by our editors and guest columnists. Each of us writes on any subject we wish, and lengths generally vary between 1000 and 2500 words.

Below you will find links to all our past Monday columns, in alphabetical order by last name of the author. Within each columnist's listing, the entries are mostly in reverse-chronological order (most recent first). Do browse them. We hope you'll find some interesting stuff. [See the "About Us" page for more information on each person.]

	Multiple-Author Events at 3QD Five Years Later (Reflections on 9/11)
	Non-3QD Writers Arif Abid: "A Poisoned Chalice" Karen Ballentine: "Eating Our Popcorn While We Weep" Akeel Bilgrami: "Brief Reflections on 9/11" Akeel Bilgrami: "Edward Said: A Personal and Intellectual Tribute" Alex Cooley: "America and Empire: Thoughts on a Debate" Ruth Crossman: "Pin the Tail on the Yankee" Ruth Crossman: "France: As the Left Falls Apart, Will the Center Hold?" Hameed Haroon: "On Dwindling Press Freedoms in Pakistan" Waleed Hazbun: "Letter From Beirut" Pervez Hoodbhoy: "Preventing More Lal Masjids" Pervez Hoodbhoy: "What next after Karachi's carnage?" Daniel Humphries: "Making Sense of Good Coffee" Prashant Keshavmurthy: "Some couplets of Abdul Qadir Khan Bedil Dehlavi" Jesse Last: "My Hope for Obama" Jesse Last: "Letter from an Obama Supporter" Matthias Mattijs: "Blair’s Legacy and Brown’s Prospects" Tolu Ogunlesi: "Facebook Poetry – Oxymoron or Hamburger-Chain Art?" Pablo Policzer: "Al Qaeda and the Paradox of Engagement" John Allen Paulos:"A Short Numerically-Flavored Rumination on 9/11/01" Bapsi Sidhwa: "Early Years that Jump-Started a Writer" Frans B. M. de Waal: "The Continuity Wars"
	Saifedean Ammous The Peace Process Delusion Why Governments should do nothing about climate change (except one thing) In Memory of Iman Al-Hams, On the Third Anniversary of Her Murder The Prince of Poets: Arab Poetry’s Answer to American Idol Biofuels: All You Need to Know for a Bar Discussion Why the Right of Return Matters to Palestinians
	Michael Blim: Below the Fold The Gift Horse: Philanthropy and the Public Interest Mosquito Nets, Malaria, and Getting the World Healthy Senator Clinton and the ABCs (Anybody but Clinton) Out-niggering and Our First “Black President” Tears for Fears and the Banality of Public Emotion in American Political Life Nativism, Universalism and Capitalism: Ambivalent Combinations Build It and They Will Come: Massachusetts Universal Health Insurance A World without the Rich The Price of Wheat in Russia, Or Everyday Inflation and Us While the Watchman Sleeps: Fraud in Today’s America Pitching Prescriptions and Patient Empowerment The New Plessy versus Ferguson and White Privilege Is There a Doctor in the House? Pedophilia – The Avatars of Evil and Me Going Home Learning about Our Rights, or Lack of Them, on TV From Paranoia to Policy on a Boston Subway Getting Concrete about Equality by Educating Girls and Women A Mole at the World Bank? Truth-Telling between the Lines Waiting for Tet Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime? On Microfinance and a Nobel Prize Back to School Report 2006 Years of Bullets, Years of Lead Re-Discovering Evil in a Small Town Library Deep States and the American Coup When Doody Calls, Cheap US Labor and the Degradation of Work Forget the Sheepskin, and Follow the Money, or Please Don’t Ask What a University is For… Inequality in a Predatory World Collapsing General Motors and the Dying American Dream, or Washington Fizzles while Detroit Burns The Clash of Civilizations: Coming to a State Near You The Supreme Court’s Brief, Now Lost Legacy of Constitutional Liberalism
	Mark Blyth: Talking Pints 1896, 1932, 1980 and 2008--What Kenny Rogers Can Teach the Democrats Eurobashing, Some French Lessons Iraq and the Law of (Misleading) Averages The Bode Miller Problem and Hamas Happy Birthday, Political Science
	Beth Ann Bovino Viruses: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Not-so-lucky Sevens FreeTown Rent Wars Baseball, Apple Pie, and Bathtub Gin Left Out In The Cold: The Impact From The Sub-Prime Mortgage Collapse Going Over The Tipping Point Web of Lies
	Jim Culleny: Monday Poems My Religious Life The Four Horse's Asses of the Necropolis Cat Dance Music From the Same Root Wakening Ask Icarus Rags to Richness Looking for Evidence Tao Meets (E = mc²) Dim Bulb on Watch —North Atlantic Internet Cafe Down to the Bone A Hole in Van Gogh's Head
	Descha Daemgen: Atelier Hurricanes, Race, and Risk Real Sweat Shops, Virtual Gold
	Timothy Don: Negotiations Les Demoiselles The Palm at the End of the Mind On Watching the Iranian Soccer Team Crumble Before Their Mexican Counterparts on German Soil Channeling Britney A Christmas Tale A Pure Negativity Smithson Sightings Down the Rabbit-Hole After Basquiat What Puts the 'Aargh' in Art?
	Shiban Ganju: Teaser Appetizer The Uninsured Patient Detox Body or Mind? Super Bugs BIL and His Fat Cells Does BIL Need Sugar? Sally Does Yoga Why Does BIL Drink Water? Why Does BIL Breathe? Use of IT in Health Care Health Care Agenda For Barack Obama Economics of Death Not so Nobel Dalai Lama Becomes the President of the USA Alienation and Violence in Kashmir The Caffeine Manifesto The Past and the Future of Happiness Sleep and Insomnia, A Letter to Shakespeare The Definition of Health The Adipose American, A Few Facts The Ulcer Giver: Helicobacter Pylori
	Elatia Harris Saffron Mother, Part II Tosca's Birthday Valentine's Day on 3QD: The Catch 3QD Valentine's Day Challenge My Widower and Proust Showing Skin Your Personal Truffle, and How To Treat It When You Get It Home The Bibliodyssey Book: An Interview with Paul K A Painter Crossing the Digital Divide My Mother's Secret Travel Diaries Building Sound White Girl in the Promised Land Royal De Luxe II: Face-Off in Reykjavik Neither of the East, nor of the West: Bestseller in Pakistan Saffron Mother Royal De Luxe: The Saga of the Giants Shrooming in Late Capitalism: The Way of the Truffle
	Christopher H. Heaney Teddy Roosevelt's Ghost Indiana Jones and the Cultural Patrimony of Doom
	Bill Hooker Is there a chemist in the house? Competition in Science: Too Much of a Good Thing Poking a Pet Peeve Miracle Mice Gay Men, Blood Donation and the Limits of Science The Future of Science is Open, Part 3: An Open Science World The Future of Science is Open, Part 2: Open Science The Future of Science is Open, Part 1: Open Access
	Tom Jacobs: Planks from the Lumberyard Spider Holes & Spider Goats: Tuning in the (White) Noises from the Margins Bathroom Pastoralism, or, The Anecdote of the Can
	Ruth Kikin-Gil September Song
	Alan Koenig Did Bernard Kouchner really endorse the Iraq War? Timothy Leary and Philip K. Dick
	Jaffer Kolb: Grab Bag Digital Cubism Critical Pass The Pacific Design Center—L.A. Revealed Follow that Gay! Danny Boyle Over the River and Through the Skyscraper Bite Your Tongue, Movies Turn Dumb
	Jonathan Kramnick: Sojourns On Recessions and Intellectual History: The Case of English Two Views of the Apocalypse Douglas Gordon's Moving Pictures What's on TV Bored by the World Cup True Crime 2 True Crime Judaism as Style Varieties of Academic Reception
	Alon Levy: A Case of the Mondays List of Most Underrated Things List of Most Overrated Things The Next Wave Will Have to Wait Jane Jacobs Books About Decline How Zionism Broke With the Left Religion and Welfare The Spectrum of Views on the Arab-Israeli Conflict The Blank Slate and Other Phantom Theories Religion is Like Race The Year of Dashed Hopes Islam is Western It's Not Oppression Alone Science is Cumulative Different Forms of Racism Kingdom Coming is Optimistic Islamism's Watershed Moment
	Alex de Lucena War Time Slurs; Rambo 4 Among the inert gases lowest on the Periodic Table of Elements is love On Why and When Fiction Writers First Publish On Loyalty On the Large Relatively Anonymous Office
	Ram Manikkalingam: Temporary Columns The Mufti and the General Obama, Unger and I My Friend Unseats the Australian PM Al Qaeda and the Paradox of Engagement Am I a Nationalist or is Amnesty International a Spoilsport? Borat is no Ali G The Emerald City and the Red Fort Three Ways Out of Iraq Nationalism and Democracy Islam, the West and Central America Vietnam War, Iraq War Writing About Rape
	Morgan Meis: Monday Musing Black History Month, NWA No Country For Old Men, Or, The Whiskey Was Warm the Night Was Not Schwärmerei Neo Neo Fragments on Paterson Loving Michnik The Civilization Behind Wire The New Mannerists Fragments from Curaçao F--- Adam Gopnik Hurricane Milosz v. Gombrowicz 9/11: A Fragment of Experience Once More on the Whole Grass Thing Cuba si? A Possible Levant Susan Sontag, Part II Susan Sontag, Part I Minor Thoughts on Cicero The Radetzky March Trapped in the Closet President's Day Hepburn and Heloise, A Tribute to the Defiance of Women Being Polish Las Vegas Sugimoto DF Leonard Cohen 7 Train Caro's Triumph Summer Lyrics Babel Defending Jeff Koons, or, Why Don't You Like My Puppy? I Love Airports Paterson
	Husain Naqvi: Critical Digressions The Simple Violence of “The Sopranos” Twilight in Delhi Gangbanging and Notions of the Self Literary Pugilists, Underground Men The Media Generation and Nazia Hassan The Naipaulian Imperative and the Phenomenon of the Post-National Beyond Winter in Karachi (or the Argumentative Pakistani) Dispatch from Karachi Dispatch from Cambridge (or Notes on Deconstructing Chicken) And, the original Critical Digression
	Dhiraj Nayyar: Thought Undone A Tale of Two Dictators: Musharraf, Mugabe and the Dangers of Absolute Power Getting Married-Indian Ishtyle Empire with No Clothes: Lessons for India from America
	Peter Nicholson: Poetry and Culture Fireworks Display Exhaustion Syndrome Liszt, Rodgers: Two Musical Valentines 'Prometheus' A Golden Age Notebook 'Gut gemacht, Rex!' 'And The Winner Is . . .' 'Is your mouth a little weak?': Commitment, politics and poetry Gustav Mahler: 'Though I sang in my chains like the sea' 'The Speewah Ballad' Sir Edward Elgar: Allegro vivace e nobilmente Gwen Harwood 'Ah! fuyez, douce image' Invitation To The Dance My Perverse Critic: Marbeck Valerian 'Asking Auden' Don't Curb Your Enthusiasm Ern Malley: Doppelgänger in the Desert Emily Dickinson: The Poem of Ecstasy Poetry of Lists Whatever: A New York State of Mind Richard Wagner: Orpheus Ascending, Part III Richard Wagner: Orpheus Ascending, Part II Richard Wagner: Orpheus Ascending The Best Poems Ever Philip Larkin: Hull-Haven Winged Victory: The Sydney Opera House Birgit Nilsson and Joan Sutherland: The Stupendous Poetry of the Real: Six Feet Over Federico Fellini: Circus Maximus Benjamin Britten: Music and Poetry, Attendant Muses at the Grinding Gears Poetry and Limitations of the Ironic Mode in the New Millennium, Part 2 Poetry and Limitations of the Ironic Mode in the New Millennium, Part 1
	Jennifer Ouellette: Random Walks Tunnel Vision Nightmare Theater Shuffling the Cards Primal Instincts The Trouble With Harry Less Than Zero She's a Rebel Heart of Darkness Casino Royale Band of Brothers Narnia, Schmarnia Past Perfect
	Jedediah Palmer: Lives of the Cannibals On Courtesy In Search Of Empty Liquor Gift-Tins and the Horror of the Magyar Moment Secret Talents of the Bush Administration Crippin Life of a Cannibal Isolation Redemption The Spell of the Sexual Rage
	Abhay Parekh: From the Tail Big Fat Regret Betting on Uncertainty
	Alta Price: Lunar Refractions Intro Anything Happy PC Holidays Architecture's Towering, Teetering, Toppling Aspirations Going, Coming, Being I’ve Gone to Look for America Gaudio mihi quod vidi Breaking the Record, Breaking the Bank Lessing’s Limits Seeing Through Things Just Make It Up—Invention, Creation, and Deception Excuse Me, You’re Wrong A Delicate Violence High-Water Mark Viva i caciaroni! Longing for Perfect Porn Aristocrats and Other Delights In it for the Long Run “Our Biggest Competitor is Silence” A Wife is Better than a Dog Anyhow Cacciari: Politician, Professor, Philosopher, or Don Juan?
	Edward B. Rackley: Sandlines Mea culpa – Can It Liberate? Franco, King of African Rumba Surviving Survival School The Ongoing Saga of Southern Sudan Where the Wild Things Are Big Buddha Is Watching The Reluctant Swami Midnight’s Children Turn Sixty The other Lonestar state Pygmies in the Hegelian Vortex Could France’s new odd couple—Sarkozy and Kouchner—spell the end of French privilege for Africa’s most venal? Katrina recovery update Spare the rod and spoil the child ‘A giant without arms or legs’ The UN millipede meanders towards reform Can Africa’s Pygmies be ‘made equal’? Exile and patriotism – Who will rebuild DR Congo?
	Azra Raza: Rx Qurratulain Hyder (Aini Apa), 1927-2007 Stephen Wolfram’s New Kind of Science Ian McEwan, Medical Ethics and Plagiarism Harvey David Preisler Thalidomide and Cancer Germs Are Us Sand Piles and Cancer Reductionist vs. Pluralist Views of Cancer Spicing Cancer Treatment The War on Cancer
	S. Abbas Raza: Monday Musing The Greatest of All Time Replying to Euler A Poem by Bahadur Shah Zafar Mortals, Rejoice! Ich bin Brixener Pets and Persons Pinker's Thinkers Tribute to Farrokh Bulsara The Grey, and the Gold 3QD Interviews Craig Mello, Medicine Nobel Laureate Why There Are So Many Men Taking Sides in the Recent Religion Debates Shia and Sunni, A Ludicrously Short Primer Happy Newton's Day! Aptitude Schmaptitude! Cocktail Party Conversation Permit How We Became Important Eqbal Ahmad Zidane and Racism Frederica Krueger, Killing Machine The Palm Pilot and the Human Brain, Part III The Palm Pilot and the Human Brain, Part II The Palm Pilot and the Human Brain On Shaving and Peacocks Good Reason, in Good Faith Mohammed Cartoon Madness and Understanding A Moral Degeneracy In the Peace Corps' Shadow Newton and the Apple Richard Dawkins, Relativism and Truth Reexamining Religion Posthumously Arrested for Assaulting Myself Be the New Kinsey General Relativity, Very Plainly Regarding Regret Three Dreams, Three Athletes Rocket Man Francis Crick's Beautiful Mistake The Man With Qualities Special Relativity Turns 100 Vladimir Nabokov, Lepidopterist Stevinus, Galileo, and Thought Experiments Cake Theory and Sri Lanka's President Connecting Heaven to Earth
	S. Asad Raza: Dispatches Some Thoughts Inspired by "My Blueberry Nights" Anthony Minghella's Talent Porochista Khakpour On the New York Giants L.A. Food Report What the Ending of There Will Be Blood Means About You Chumps and Outlaws U.S. Open: Second Week Report The 3QD U.S. Open Preview Harry Potter and Hallowed Death How to Park a Car in Downtown New York City Roundup It's Only Food On The Bowery Whole Foods Eagleton versus Dawkins L.A., Red-Eyed Observations Abbas Kiarostami Nihari Redux Sunday Bazaar America the Inconceivable The Disenchantment of 11 Spring Street On the Shining Keeping It Real Remembering the World Trade Center Agassi On the Prose of the New York Times Crosby Street Zidane and Contempt Women in Whites Chicken Country Ones and Zeroes Affronter Rafael Nadal New New York The Persistence of the Hamburger Flaubert and the Anxiety of Inheritance Eindrücke aus Berlin Lahore On Michael Haneke (Directors) Divisions of Labor III (NYU Strike) Divisions of Labor II ( NYU Strike) Divisions of Labor (NYU Strike) The Thing Itself (Coffee) Local Catch (Fishes) Where I'm Coming From (JFK) Optimism of the Will (Edward Said) Vince Vaughan...Eve Sedgwick (Homosocial Comedies) The Other Sweet Science (Tennis) Rain in November (Downtown for Democracy) Disaster! (Movies) On Ethnic Food and People of Color (Worcestershire Sauce) Aesthetics of Impermanence (Street Art)
	Sughra Raza: Perceptions Since Sughra posts an art image every week, there are too many to list here. Search for "Perceptions Sughra Raza" in the search box above to find all her posts, or just click here to do the same. Sometimes, Sughra posts her own artwork, and some of those are here: Leaving Chicago. 1999. In Laura & Dennis' Yard, As I Was Leaving. 2008.
	Jane Renaud: Old Bev Hair (Summer 2001) Bryan Scares Me Genie Wish Proposal Show Me The Baby For the Cockroaches of New York So Dark the Con of Men? Global Warning POP! Culture Nunchucks in the House Letter to Dalton Conley Mr. Danny
	Justin E. H. Smith: Selected Minor Works Quaeries, part II Judith Warner Is in My Head Super Tuesday Surprise: Leading Minsk Newspaper Endorses Candidates in US Presidential Race Quaeries Beyond All This Good Is the Terror Are Twins Birds? Don't Check My Chromosome Address to a Mirror Is Depression a Medical Condition? The Joy of Russia Hipsters, Prepare to Die Imaginary Tribes #4 Imaginary Tribes #3 Imaginary Tribes #2 Imaginary Tribes #1 When Screens Bleed Where Movies Came From A Philosophical Exchange, of Sorts The Self and September 11 Mel and Monotheism Where Turks Still Menace The Opposite of Sports Why We Do Not Eat Our Dead Where's the Philosophy?! Of the Proper Names of Peoples, Places, Fishes, &c. Kosovo Pole Revisited Oh. Canada. Part II Historical Reflections on Language and Bipedalism The Heresy of Intelligent Design Oh. Canada. Taxonomy as a Guide to Morals The Question of Marriage Early Modern Primitives Replacing William Safire
	PD Smith Someday this crazy world will have to end
	Ahila Sornarajah Singapore: Notes on a Fine City The Tories and Conservative Sex Appeal The Bollywood Babe and Big(ot) Brother
	Ker Than: Poison in the Ink How Virtual Worlds Mirror Our Own The Cool Art of Planet-Hunting Darwinian Grandparenting About This Year's Tribute in Light Gaia Theory The Life and Times of Fridtjof Nansen The Makings of a Manifesto Visiting Trinity
	J. M. Tyree: Ocracoke Post Angels & Demons: Three Drafts from a Script Postponed A Fan's Notes On The 2007 World Series On the AFI Top 100 Films of All Time Ever I'm With Stupid On the Case of the Da Vinci Code Appeal Where Have All the Liberals Gone? A Note on September 11 Fiction Why I Won't Sign the Euston Road Manifesto Vollmann Dreams of Joseph? Reality Bites Vollmann, Crane, and Adventure Journalism Milestones George Orwell Hated Torture and Lies Dining on Iain Sinclair Advice to the British Conservative Party: No More Baldies Is There Online Literature Yet? Lovecraft: Too Legit to Quit World War II Postal Services The Assault on Edward W. Said Watkins: Support the Insurgents? The Age of Nonfiction The Hunting of the Snark
	Robin Varghese: Monday Musing Sounds of the Tides: Some Thoughts on Literature in the Vernacular Some Random Thoughts on the Trial of Saddam Hussein Modern Myths What Wikipedia Showed Me About My Family, Community, and Consensus Al Andalus and Hapsburg Austria Darfur, Privatized Humanitarian Intervention, and Moral Ambiguity Liberalism's Loss of the Skeptical Spirit Awareness of Mortality, Conservatism, and Local News 'Tis the Season for Lists Exporting Institutions, Comparison, and the Iraq debate More Paranoiac rantings about the web and blogs Enchantment and pluralism, some thoughts while reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Farm Subsidies, Ways of Life, and Poverty Terrorism, Free Will and Methods of Comparison The Blogosphere, the Islamist at The Guardian and some things for us to think about Ghettos of the Mind, or What Amazon.com tells us about ourselves The lost lessons of Russian literature Bandung and the Birth of the Third World On Suicide Killers

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