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ASPI suggests
Posted By David Lang on May 13, 2016 @ 14:30
‘China today is in the midst of another political fever, in the form of an anti-corruption crackdown and a harsh stifling of dissenting views. But it should not be mistaken for a replay of the Cultural Revolution. Even with thousands under arrest, the scale of suffering is of a different order, and shorthand comparisons run the risk of relieving the Cultural Revolution of its full horror.’
‘...has become something of a hero to academic philosophers. In 2009, he won first place in a large international poll of professors and graduate students who were asked to name the dead thinker with whom they most identified. The runners-up in this peculiar race were Aristotle and Kant. Hume beat them by a comfortable margin. Socrates only just made the top twenty.’
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[1] Ramadi in Ruins: http://csis.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=833ec271d60c6750d9c3baaac&id=a26368a5a8&e=6882938e1e
[2] great photo essay: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/05/london-during-the-blitz-then-and-now-photographs/481851/
[3] how China (under President Xi Jinping) sees the world: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-china-sees-world-order-15846?page=show
[4] Mao’s Cultural Revolution, fifty years on: http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-cost-of-the-cultural-revolution-fifty-years-later?mbid=social_facebook
[5] longform profile: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html
[6] this page: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/aspi-suggests-6may/
[7] explainer: http://www.vox.com/2016/5/12/11655668/ben-rhodes
[8] ‘retailing’ of the Iran deal: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/ben-rhodes-and-the-retailing-of-the-iran-deal/481893/
[9] this piece: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/10-problems-with-nyt-mags-ben-rhodes-profile.html
[10] 'The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies': http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/07/discovered-our-parents-were-russian-spies-tim-alex-foley
[11] this potent piece from the NYRB: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/05/26/who-was-david-hume/
[12] Strategist Six subject: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-stategist-six-jane-perlez/
[13] recently profiled Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr.: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/world/asia/us-admiral-harry-harris.html?_r=0
[14] Warrior Canine Connection: http://warriorcanineconnection.org/
[15] watch the new 11-strong litter feed, play and snooze: http://taskandpurpose.com/watch-live-puppies-will-grow-service-dogs/?utm_content=bufferd192a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=tp-buffer
[16] The Individualisation of War: https://soundcloud.com/warstudies/war-studies-annual-lecture-professor-welsh-on-the-individualisation-of-war?in=warstudies/sets/events
[17] online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b0hFIf4Zaw
[18] here’s: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/world/middleeast/munitions-and-music-with-the-russians-in-syria.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
[19] ‘Breaking ISIL’s Brand’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb78l-i6scE
[20] event series: http://www.anu.edu.au/events/the-vote-2016-federal-election