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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 3QD Seminar on Akeel Bilgrami's "Occidentalism, The Very Idea" Five Years Later (Reflections on 9/11)
	Non-3QD Writers Arif Abid: "A Poisoned Chalice" T. K. Armistead: "Open Letter to America from a Prodigal Daughter" Karen Ballentine: "Eating Our Popcorn While We Weep" Shiko Behar: "On Freeze and Dismantling Between Cairo and Bar Ilan Universities" Shiko Behar: "Who ended the 6-month cease-fire in Irael/Palestine?" Katie Bierach: "A Brief History of Faith and Reason" Akeel Bilgrami: "A Reply to Robbins, Jager, Smith, Levine, Manikkalingam, and Mehta" Akeel Bilgrami: "Occidentalism, The Very Idea: An Essay on The Enlightenment and Enchantment" Akeel Bilgrami: "Brief Reflections on 9/11" Akeel Bilgrami: "Edward Said: A Personal and Intellectual Tribute" Elizabeth Bradfield: "The Owls: Multi-Use Area" 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?" Timothy Y. Fong: "Towards a Viable American Left" Stefany Anne Golberg: "Two weeks in China: tourist snapshots, Part II" Stefany Anne Golberg: "Two weeks in China: tourist snapshots" Siavash Habibi: "In Obama's Short Address to Iranians, A Smart Act of Foreign Policy" Ad Hamilton: "The Owls: A Stain on Boston" Hameed Haroon: "On Dwindling Press Freedoms in Pakistan" Waleed Hazbun: "Letter From Beirut" Pervez Hoodbhoy: "Faheem Hussain — As I Knew Him" Pervez Hoodbhoy: "Preventing More Lal Masjids" Pervez Hoodbhoy: "What next after Karachi's carnage?" Daniel Humphries: "Making Sense of Good Coffee" Adrienne Hyat: "Voices from the most dangerous nation on earth" Colin Jager: "Literary Thinking: A Comment on Bilgrami" Prashant Keshavmurthy: "Some couplets of Abdul Qadir Khan Bedil Dehlavi" Atiya B. Khan: "A Brief Remembrance of Ahmad Faraz" Anjuli Raza Kolb: "Blood Studies" Anjuli Raza Kolb: "The Metonymyville Horror" Jesse Last: "My Hope for Obama" Jesse Last: "Letter from an Obama Supporter" Steven Levine: "A Comment on Bilgrami" Diondra Marchus: "Selfishness as the Source of Violence" Matthias Mattijs: "Blair’s Legacy and Brown’s Prospects" Uday Mehta: "Response to Akeel Bilgrami" Martha Nussbaum: "The President-Elect and India" Tolu Ogunlesi: "Corsets, cameras and camouflage: Meeting Kate Adie" 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" Syed Tasnim Raza:"Michael E. DeBakey, 1908-2008" Bruce Robbins:"Response to Akeel Bilgrami" David Shasha: "Reading the 92nd Street Y Catalog: Sephardim and Arabs Need Not Apply" Bapsi Sidhwa: "Early Years that Jump-Started a Writer" Nick Smyth: "Science, Pseudoscience and Bollocks" Steve Tignor: "Interpretations: Bl'ker" Frans B. M. de Waal: "The Continuity Wars" Todd Bryant Weeks: "Satch, Louis and Satchel" Todd Bryant Weeks: "Swing Territory, Part I" Todd Bryant Weeks: "Swing Territory, Part II" Randolyn Zinn: "Stamp Your Feet. Hard."
	Saifedean Ammous The AP's vanishing demonstrators and Israel's propaganda war Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Prophet of Humanism 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
	Namit Arora Part 2: The Golden Age of Islam Part 1: The Rise of Islam On Knowledge Without Wisdom In Light of Nalanda The Dearth of Artificial Intelligence Atheistic Materialism in Ancient India A Sales Conference America, the Cold War, and the Taliban Asian Food for Thought Being Liberal in a Plural World Marco Polo's India
	Jason S. Bardi: Late Night Science The Birth of Electronic Communication The Once and Future Prince of Dwarves
	Michael Blim: Below the Fold The Knot of Neoliberalism: Obama, the Democratic Congress, and the Great Health Care Reform of 2009 Will Someone Rid Me of Private Health Insurance? Economic Recovery for Whom? Stonewall at the White House: A Celebration with the Great Temporizer Stonewall’s 40th Eye on the Prize, and the Prez Blinks Prick up your ears, Times readers: Do you know what your New York Times is doing? Obama and the Coming Battle with the Big Banks Why America Needs to Bring its Rich to Heel Obituaries: A Sunrise Seminar in the Little Chain of Being Obama’s Inaugural Speech: A Post-Mortem Puzzle The Crisis and American Economists: The Re-Entry of Liberals and the Rediscovery of Keynes What’s Wrong with Homeowning? Stop the Home Wrecking and Protect America's Future Running on Empty: The Consequences of America’s Insolvency My Summer with Stalin Obama’s Convention Acceptance Speech: An Advance Copy Whose Incentives , Whose Rights?: 'Incentivizing' the Poor Those Chickens: The Economic Crisis and America’s Poor and Struggling 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 The U.S. Economy in 2009: “Toto, We’re Not In Kansas Anymore” Still Not Wise Cleaning House 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
	Evert Cilliers The Balls Of Obama -- Big But Soft? The American Character (We Voted For Bush, We Voted For Obama, So Who The Heck Are We?) Obama's Secret Advice to the G.O.P. Michael Jackson, HMOs And Iran: The Fatal Consequences Of U.S. Meddling The Capitalist Manifesto -- How to Modernize Capitalism from Feudalism to Democracy Fight The Banks, Move Your Account Wall Street is a Nigerian Scam, Obama tells Summers Obama does more in 40 days than Bill Clinton did in 8 years -- but trusts our future to economic war criminal Larry Summers & Heckuva-job Geithnie Who is the biggest King of Fraud -- Bernie Madoff or Henry Paulson? A common sense discussion in layman's language of our casino capitalism, skeevy CEOs and Pollyanna Psychosis Barack Obama and the invention of self
	Norman Costa My Life As An Observer: Target Practice - Part 1 Psychological Science: The [Non-]Theory of Psychological Testing – Part 3 Psychological Science: The [Non-]Theory of Psychological Testing – Part 2 Psychological Science: The [Non-]Theory of Psychological Testing - Part 1 My Life as a Crime Fighter: The Case of the Predator Psychiatrist - Part 2 My Life as a Crime Fighter: The Case of the Predator Psychiatrist A Scientist Goes to an Ashram for a Personal Retreat - The Final Chapter A Scientist Goes to an Ashram for a Personal Retreat – Part 2 A Scientist Goes to an Ashram for a Personal Retreat – Part 1 My Father: A Veteran's Story – Part 2 My Father: A Veteran's Story – Part 1
	Jim Culleny: Monday Poems Icon To Roof Ignorant Explorers The Ghost of the Arrow of Time Lucky Again I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears The Frequency of Error Sunup to Noon Tonight Swimming in Space Time Steep Sigh Hawks Talking With My Guru As the Minute Clicks Odder Still Figurehead New Thing Deep Ecology The Problem of Time Bibliophile Time Enough New Morning Hydrant Life in the Fast Lane Hormones in Love Past Prime Black Sunday Shoes House of an Evil Jin Where Buddha Was Kneedeep as Leaves Pythagoras and me @ 2 am The Hunter American Games Bread House Salt God Two Deaths Until the Sacred Cows Come Home A Meating of Mind Don Q. in Manhattan Perennial Argument Humor and Light Punch Lines and Photons Communication Girl on Trapeze Jazzman Said Heraclitus The Pool of Buddha's Eyes Tabula Rasas In a Blink Blue under Blue Backyard Haiku Everybody Loves Their Tool A Weekend in the Garden of My Sixties Hazy Moon Frida Kahlo's Brows Over the Counter Sugarphone 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?
	Gerald Dworkin Summer time and the eating is easy Moral Anachronism Anthing to Declare? Penne for Your Thought Lying Around -- Part II Lying Around -- Part I
	Jennifer Cody Epstein On Penguins and Dystopia The New Abolitionists An American Brownie in Barcelona Confessions of an Illegible Woman
	Richard Eskow Jim Carroll's Death Poem ... and Mine Shiny happy tomorrow people A coupla robot heads sitting around watching tv (or, i caught a bad meme this weekend) World Brain Teasers: Handicapping H. G. Wells Emotional Cartography: Christian Nold and William Blake The Colonization by Photography of a Country/Western Singer Andy Rooney as an Artificial Intelligence Protecting the Earth From Interplanetary Collisions John Lennon Monsters in the Uncanny Valley Understanding Arthur Alexander If The Beats Had the Internet - or, A Place in Digital Space
	Shiban Ganju: Teaser Appetizer Climate Change: We are in it together Prevention and the Cost of Health Care LUI: Living Under the Influence Then Spoke the Thunder BIL goes jogging Sarah Palin vs. The Fruit Fly The Stethoscope and the Art of Medicine The Smells of Delhi McCain and the Myth of the Medical Market BIL snores. Is he Pickwickian? 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 James Ensor: Keepin' It Surreal Extreme Cases: An Interview with Affinity Konar Giambattista Della Porta of Naples: How to Turn a Woman Green How Never to Write about Your Animals Mathis the Painter Chef of the North: An Interview with Karen Peters Saffron Mother, Part III Alix & FUEL: A Conversation about Crime Elise & Me: A Tale of Extreme Optical Seduction 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
	Sam Kean Will the Manhattan Project Always Exist? Rumination on the Life, Death, and Particularly the Legacy of a Man Barely Necessary to Introduce to Y’All, Beyond Mentioning (1) His Initials, D, F, and W, and (2) The Fact That This Very Headline Owes Him, Obviously, Everything Who John Galt Isn’t Unconscious Choreography: Literally moving stories What’s Wrong with “Dixie” The Specter of Souter Science, Gambling, Telling Stories Truth's and Beauty's Doom and Date A Linguistic Analysis of Your Genes (Not) Finding Room for Obama Literary Venice. Or, How to Attract Readers without Books
	Ruth Kikin-Gil September Song
	Alan Koenig The Owls: A Deuce and a Half Did Bernard Kouchner really endorse the Iraq War? Timothy Leary and Philip K. Dick
	Jaffer Kolb: Grab Bag On the hysteria of partial disorder: A short rant 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
	Affinity Konar In Nutshell Code All We Know, All We See A Factual History of Fictional Natures
	Krzysztof Kotarski Polański's latest thriller An Essay on an Essay on the Polish Soul East Side Gallery, April 2009 Fun with Daedalus (and Adam Malysz) Landing in a clean, well-lighted place Gaza, Giza and the other CNN effect
	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 From Reagan Democrats to Obama Republicans Culture follows Politics: Avoiding the global divide between “Islam and the West” What I have learned from being a part of Sri Lanka’s Civil War Barack is Black: That’s a relief! 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
	Colin Marshall Hirokazu Koreeda's Maborosi (1995) Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy (1955-1959) Wes Anderson's Rushmore (1998) Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (1977) Ming-liang Tsai's What Time is it There? (2001) Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972) Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century (2006) Chris Marker's "Sans Soleil" (1983) Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas (1984) Yasujirō Ozu's Equinox Flower (1958) Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
	Katherine McNamara Thunder Soul; or, a Secretary for the Arts? The President As Writer
	Morgan Meis: Monday Musing A Tribute to European Trains Twenty or Thirty Years Old A Good Book! Down, I Say, Down with Malcolm Gladwell! Péter Esterházy Little Spring 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
	Maniza Naqvi At The End of a Match Losing the Plot: (Stanley’s Girl) Losing the Plot: (Sovereign Debt) Losing The Plot (Dreaming Dulles) Losing the Plot (The Hotel) Losing The Plot The Art of Resistance: Under Siege Amber X-Epsilon Under the sealed sky: Drones The DMV The Leftist and The Leader Bogomil
	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
	Alan Page From Antonio Gamoneda's 'Arden las Pérdidas' Antonio Gamoneda's Georgics On Desahogo: Defiance and Despair in the Mexico City Viaduct
	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
	Jonathan Pfeiffer Reforming Graduate Education Culture and Technology in the Balance Choose Your Story Culture in Development: The Importance of Climbing Up the Slide The Union of Evolution and Design
	Laray Polk South Ossetia and Abkhazia: Notes from the Inside Tongues of Fire, Plains of Grace: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki Militarization of Space: Czech Hunger Strike Encompasses more than Radar
	Alta Price: Lunar Refractions Hasten Slowly Repetition and Remains [part IV] Repetition and Remains [Part III] Repetition and Remains [Part II] Repetition and Remains [Part I] Debauched Grace—Gainsbourg is no Gorbachev… A Monumental Life—in Letters Leaves That are Green 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 May our Gods be angry: Celestial politics in Bas Congo Werner Herzog: Beyond the syphilitic machine Music in the Service of Cosmology: Popol Vuh and Giacinto Scelsi What shall the meek inherit? The case of Guinea They might be giants Waters of the Nile Beauty Broken Peace talks, bullshit walks in an invisible war Carrots for the General Go Fast, Turn Left! Assault on Dystopia—a Travelogue 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 The Nobleness of Life is to do Thus Syed Ali Raza, 1913-2005 Emily Post and Laura Claridge: Two Women Possessing the Genius of Etiquette 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 Happy Newton's Day, 2008! Useless Calculations 3QD Interviews Richard Dawkins 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 You may see some of Abbas's non-3qd writing here.
	S. Asad Raza: Selected Pieces Roland Garros 2009 Dialogue Rome Food Report Steve McQueen, Hunger (2008) The Kitsch Instinct: A Letter to Denis Dutton Harun Farocki, Respite (2007) Maurizio Cattelan, Daddy Daddy (2008) A Post-Wimbledon Dialogue A Wimbledon Dialogue Some Thoughts Inspired by "My Blueberry Nights" Anthony Minghella's Talent Porochista Khakpour L.A. Food Report What the Ending of There Will Be Blood Means About You U.S. Open: Second Week Report The 3QD U.S. Open Preview How to Park a Car in Downtown New York City On The Bowery Whole Foods L.A., Red-Eyed Observations Abbas Kiarostami Nihari Redux Sunday Bazaar The Disenchantment of 11 Spring Street On the Shining Keeping It Real Remembering the World Trade Center Agassi Crosby Street Zidane and Contempt Women in Whites Chicken Country Ones and Zeroes Affronter Rafael Nadal Lahore On Michael Haneke Divisions of Labor III Divisions of Labor II Divisions of Labor The Thing Itself Local Catch Optimism of the Will The Other Sweet Science Rain in November Disaster! On Ethnic Food and People of Color Aesthetics of Impermanence
	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: Summer Stockings. 2006. 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
	Daniel Rourke Mapping the Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion On Being in Japan and Elsewhere The Tinkerer Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription I discovered the ants A Bomb Won't Go Off Here The Next Great Discontinuity, Part II The Next Great Discontinuity Writing (Hyper)text and Image Obama's Address to the State of Non-belief In Another city another me is writing; Another thought is unwinding
	Olivia Scheck Mark Sanford and the Utility of Evolutionary Psychology Tarnation (2003): Add it to your Netflix queue today The Intelligence of Between-Group Differences Feeling Our Way to Right and Wrong Multiple Realities and the Nature of Delusion The Illogic of U.S. Foreign Language Education Is Humor Immoral?
	David Schneider Make Mine a Black-and-Tan Money Talks Back: The Linguistic Infrastructure of Corporatese (i.e., business jargon) Talkin' Gibbon in the Hypercloud Pressed: Obama at the White House Correspondents' Dinner New York, at the moment Of Sleuths and Starships The Character of an Education A History of Tomorrow: The Silent Generation Sings A New Spectrum of Mental Illness
	Justin E. H. Smith: Selected Minor Works Ecce Canis The Idiotic Period Quaeries #4: The Search-Engine On Sympathy Thomas Friedman Clogged My Toilet On Criticizing Israel Imaginary Tribes #6 The Fundamentals of Gelastics Birobidzhan! Everything Flows Maureen Dowd Is in My Bed Ex Africa aliquid novi Notes on the Religious Right Quaeries, Part III A Comment on Akeel Bilgrami's "Occidentalism, The Very Idea" Imaginary Tribes #5 Philosophy in the Barnyard For Christ's Sake, Who'll Help Me Out of this Skin!? The Invention of Race Gypsies Even Tierra del Fuegans Do It 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 That City on a Hill: Books of the Year Faust and the Physicists The private lives of Franz K. Utopia on the sidewalk Someday this crazy world will have to end
	Aditya Dev Sood The Abode of the Righteous Design Diary / Lisbon Notes on Communal Bathing The Empire Estate My Experiments with Cooling The End of Something The Journey \| Home The Bitter Taste of Life Fragments of Bone and Clay The Work of Art in a City of Heat and Dust Embers from my Neighbor’s House
	Ahila Sornarajah The Mad Race for London Mayor Singapore: Notes on a Fine City The Tories and Conservative Sex Appeal The Bollywood Babe and Big(ot) Brother
	Jeff Strabone Klepto-Capitalism, and How to Fight It What Kind of Space Is Cyberspace? Kiarostami's 'Shirin': watching a movie about watching a movie Why We Need Harold Hongju Koh on the Supreme Court Can you hear me, Major Tom? Renaissance of the Repressed The Jennifer Aniston in All of Us
	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
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