Om Satyam Shivam Sundaram

If you’ve ever … put your faith in a guru traveled to India and were blown away and never took a single drug recited a mantram throughout the day memorized part of  chapter 2 of…

Finkelstein’s Pessimism and Optimism

Philosopher Paul Ricoeur identified Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche as three masters of suspicion in the modern West.  Over the last three decades, Norman Finkelstein has shown himself to be a contemporary  maven of suspicion when…

A Policy of Terror

A Comment on Norman Finkelstein’s ‘This Time We Went Too Far’: Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion (OR Books, 2010) We are approaching the second anniversary of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 into January…

The Work Goes on

Recently I learned that Norman Finkelstein was denied entry to Israel and banned from coming there for ten years.   Reading about this, I thought of  Antonio Gramsci, a leader of the Italian Communist Party…