by Joe Mathews
On Election Day, I intend to stand reluctantly with the majority of my fellow Californians — on the sidelines and as far as from the voting booth as possible.
Archive for October, 2010
How do Artists React to the Oppression of War?
Posted By Zócalo On October 28, 2010
Alan Riding spent 12 years as the European cultural correspondent for The New York Times. In And the Show Went On, Riding uncovers the lives of artists working in Paris under Nazi occupation, and explores the responsibility of artists in times of war. In the excerpt below, Riding recounts meeting those who worked and survived the era, and wandering the streets that bore the brunt of the invasion.
Robert Kaplan
Posted By Zócalo On October 28, 2010
Robert D. Kaplan is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington and a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the best-selling author of 12 books, and his most recent is Monsoon: The Indian Ocean Region and the Future of American Power. Before talking at Zócalo about whether the U.S. is ready for the rise of Asia, Kaplan told us more about himself.
Borges’ Poems of the Night
Posted By Zócalo On October 27, 2010
Jorge Luis Borges is well-remembered for his fiction, but the Argentine master thought of himself as a poet. Below, Suzanne Jill Levine, editor of a five-book series of Borges’ poems, and UCLA Spanish and comparative literature professor Efraín Kristal read selections from Poems of the Night. The collection, presenting English and Spanish versions of each poem, many available in English for the first time, gathers Borges’ meditations on night, darkness, and dreams.
The Return of the Indian Ocean Region
Posted By Zócalo On October 27, 2010
The Asian century has begun, but not in the way we think, according to Robert Kaplan.
“I don’t mean it in only economic terms, which is something we all know about. The Pacific Rim tigers have been the stuff of magazine cover stories since the early 1980s,” said Kaplan, an Atlantic national correspondent and author of Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power. “I mean it in military terms as well.”
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