Archivo «Domingo, 24/Ene/2010»
By Andrew H. Kydd, an associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Barbara F. Walter, a professor of political science at UC San Diego’s Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. They are the authors of Strategies of Terrorism (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 24/01/10):
On Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with plastic explosives hidden in his underwear. On Dec. 22, 2001, Richard Reid tried to blow up a transatlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes. Incompetent and poorly supported, they were… Seguir leyendo
By Daniel Akst, a former columnist and technology editor at the Los Angeles Times and a writer in New York’s Hudson Valley (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 24/01/10):
Literature has always relied on technology. We wouldn’t have the Dead Sea Scrolls had the ancients failed to invent papyrus, just as we wouldn’t have “The Da Vinci Code” if Gutenberg hadn’t come out with movable type.
Technology has also abetted literature by enabling the wealth and leisure that fueled the rise of the popular press — and allowed for such luxuries as a class of professional writers and a large campus establishment devoted… Seguir leyendo
By James Wood, staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the novel The Book Against God (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 24/01/10):
In the 18th century, the genre of “earthquake sermon” was good business. Two small shocks in London, in 1750, sent the preachers to their pulpits and pamphlets. The bishop of London blamed Londoners’ lewd behavior; the bishop of Oxford argued that God had woven into his grand design certain incidents to alarm us and shake us out of our sin. In Bloomsbury, the Rev. Dr. William Stukeley preached that earthquakes are favored by God as the… Seguir leyendo
Por Salvador Giner, presidente del Institut d’Estudis Catalans (EL PERIÓDICO, 24/01/10):
Tan grande es el horror de lo acaecido, que pasan los días sin que prensa y televisión abandonen su atención sobre la torturada nación antillana. Tan grande es la hecatombe, que la enfermedad crónica que a algunos informadores aqueja –memoria efímera, sensacionalismo, simplificación– ha sido súbitamente curada. Tampoco escasean los periodistas responsables, por fortuna, que nos recuerdan el peligro que se cierne sobre Haití: el del pronto olvido.
El olvido no es el peor de los males: Estados Unidos, que tan asiduamente han mandado a sus tropas a… Seguir leyendo