Posts Tagged ‘scholarly’

Scholarly Sleuths Scuttle Shady Sale of Letter Sent to Hernán Cortés

In September 2020, a trio of scholars based in Mexico and Spain managed to stop the sale of a valuable historical document that had been stolen from the National Archives of Mexico (AGN),  Mexico News Daily  reports. The manuscript in question was a letter written in 1521 to the Spanish conquistador  Hernán Cortés , sent […]

Bruce Hoffman’s new book ‘Inside Terrorism’ is presumptuous and devoid of scholarly value – to say the least

     The author, Bruce Hoffman, was for a long time a director at RAND Corporation in Washington, which he designates in his book as an “independent, objective, nonpartisan research institution” (p. xi). As an external observer, researcher and author, I have followed with keen interest for many years the debate surrounding the phenomenon of terrorism: […]

You can’t say U.S. media is reporting violence in Israel-Palestine in an evenhanded manner

You can call escalating tensions in Israel-Palestine by any name you want –Third Intifada, Wave of Violence, Tide of Terror, whatever – but what you can’t say is this: US media is reporting events in an even-handed manner. Shocking, I know. Even less shocking to those who paid close attention to the US media’s coverage […]

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