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An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature

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.]


3QD Group

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

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?"
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"
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?"
Stefany Anne Golberg: "Two weeks in China: tourist snapshots, Part II"
Stefany Anne Golberg: "Two weeks in China: tourist snapshots"
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"
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"
Matthias Mattijs: "Blair’s Legacy and Brown’s Prospects"
Uday Mehta: "Response to Akeel Bilgrami"
Martha Nussbaum: "The President-Elect and India"
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"
Frans B. M. de Waal: "The Continuity Wars"
Todd Bryant Weeks: "Satch, Louis and Satchel"
Todd Bryant Weeks; "Swing Territory, Part I"

Saif

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

Namit Arora


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

Jason S. Bardi: Late Night Science


The Birth of Electronic Communication
The Once and Future Prince of Dwarves

Michael

Michael Blim: Below the Fold


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

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

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

Evert Cilliers


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

Norman Costa


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

Jim Culleny: Monday Poems


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

Descha Daemgen: Atelier


Hurricanes, Race, and Risk
Real Sweat Shops, Virtual Gold

Timothy

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?

Jerry

Gerald Dworkin


Anthing to Declare?
Penne for Your Thought
Lying Around -- Part II
Lying Around -- Part I

Jenn

Jennifer Cody Epstein


On Penguins and Dystopia
The New Abolitionists
An American Brownie in Barcelona
Confessions of an Illegible Woman

Richard

Richard Eskow


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

Shiban Ganju: Teaser Appetizer


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

Elatia Harris


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

Chris

Christopher H. Heaney


Teddy Roosevelt's Ghost
Indiana Jones and the Cultural Patrimony of Doom

Bill

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

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

Sam Kean


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

Ruth Kikin-Gil


September Song

Alan

Alan Koenig


Did Bernard Kouchner really endorse the Iraq War?
Timothy Leary and Philip K. Dick

Jaffer

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

Affinity Konar


In Nutshell Code
All We Know, All We See
A Factual History of Fictional Natures

Kris

Krzysztof Kotarski


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

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

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

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

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

Colin Marshall


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

Katherine McNamara


Thunder Soul; or, a Secretary for the Arts?
The President As Writer

Morgan

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

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

Maniza Naqvi


The Art of Resistance: Under Siege
Amber
X-Epsilon
Under the sealed sky: Drones
The DMV
The Leftist and The Leader
Bogomil

Dhiraj

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

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

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

Alan Page


From Antonio Gamoneda's 'Arden las Pérdidas'
Antonio Gamoneda's Georgics
On Desahogo: Defiance and Despair in the Mexico City Viaduct

Jed

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

Abhay Parekh: From the Tail


Big Fat Regret
Betting on Uncertainty

Jonathan

Jonathan Pfeiffer


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

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

Alta Price: Lunar Refractions


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?

Ed

Edward B. Rackley: Sandlines


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

Azra Raza: Rx


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

Abbas

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.

Asad

S. Asad Raza: Selected Pieces


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

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

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

Daniel Rourke


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

Olivia Scheck


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

David Schneider


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

Justin E. H. Smith: Selected Minor Works


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

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

Aditya Dev Sood


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

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

Jeff Strabone


Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Renaissance of the Repressed
The Jennifer Aniston in All of Us

Ker

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

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

Bryant

Bryant Urstadt


The Literature of the Piano
Questions for 2009
Here in the Great Unwinding
Paris, Paranoia, the CIA, Humes

Robin

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

Manisha

Manisha Verma


How we learned to stop worrying and love the recession
On the Evolution of Open Source
A thousand desires such as these
Camera and the consciousness
The Temporal Prospects of Humanity

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