Reporting
… the headline sensation of the tsunami, no Americans had died in Pakistan. But the earthquake was on par with the … in the Indian Province of Gujarat on the morning of January 26, 2001, one of the deadliest earthquakes in Indian history … “Sir?” “Yes?” “It is okay. Not so many died here.” He points to a shattered first-floor apartment; there, standing …
… Crisis Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica for VQR and for a website called livehopelove.com . I had come to say a few words and then to be quiet, to … I did not want to talk, but I had to. Andre was in the audience. He introduced himself afterward and smiled that …
… insecurity and is at the same time its origin. Tariff competition is replacing competition in armaments, and is in … freedom of the seas and on respect for the rights of neutrals. The sanctions, purely preventive in the first instance, … pact. But this arrangement seems insufficient from two points of view. In the first place its terms are not clear …
Articles
… Managing Editor, Allison Wright, has taught in the Media Studies department at the University of Virginia, and her most … two years of marketing funds on completely replacing our website. With a decade-old, functionally obsolete CMS, we … and science publications. In 2013, VQR was accessed 26,572 times through only one such service, and we received …
… and Imperialism , by Sheldon Watts. Yale $35 This book studies the great epidemics that have scourged the globe over … attempts to come to grips with a melancholy tradition. In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time , by flans Ulrich Gumbrecht. … here provides a lengthy, flowing account that has many fine points and quite a few errors, beginning with a …
Essays
… on grounds of blasphemy, scurrility, or obscenity—or, not uncommonly, all three. To an unreconstructed libertarian the … of royalty, and the gentry’s claim to privilege, had they also been applied to the things the scriptures identify … of the mighty, combine to produce a sympathetic audience for those who cast off the ordinary restraints of …