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Commentary on politics, history, culture, and literature by two Dartmouth graduates and their buddies
WHO WE ARE Chien Wen Kung graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004 and majored in History and English. He is currently a civil servant in Singapore. Someday, he hopes to pursue a PhD in History. John Stevenson graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 with a BA in Government and War and Peace Studies. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He hopes to pursue a career in teaching and research. Kwame A. Holmes did not graduate from Dartmouth. However, after graduating from Florida A+M University in 2003, he began a doctorate in history at the University of Illinois--Urbana Champaign. Having moved to Chicago to write a dissertation on Black-Gay-Urban life in Washington D.C., he attached himself to the leg of John Stevenson and is thrilled to sporadically blog on the Dartmouth Observer. Feel free to email him comments, criticisms, spelling/grammar suggestions. BLOGS/WEBSITES WE READ The American Scene Arts & Letters Daily Agenda Gap Stephen Bainbridge Jack Balkin Becker and Posner Belgravia Dispatch Black Prof The Corner Demosthenes Daniel Drezner Five Rupees Free Dartmouth Galley Slaves Instapundit Mickey Kaus The Little Green Blog Left2Right Joe Malchow Josh Marshall OxBlog Bradford Plumer Political Theory Daily Info Andrew Samwick Right Reason Andrew Seal Andrew Sullivan Supreme Court Blog Tapped Tech Central Station UChicago Law Faculty Blog Volokh Conspiracy Washington Monthly Winds of Change Matthew Yglesias ARCHIVES BOOKS WE'RE READING CW's Books John's Books STUFF Site Feed    |
Sunday, November 13, 2005
The Reading List Alright, this is the reading list from now until January 2. Let's see how many of these I can finish before I have to start thinking about, in a concrete and systematic way, what I am going to write my MA thesis on. Non-fiction Enrique Dussel, Beyond Philosophy: Ethics, History, Marxism, and Liberation Theology Jose Marti, Jose Mart Reader Gina Barreca, Babes in BoylandStephen Brooks, Producing Security Marc Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks Howard Ball and Phillip Cooper, Of Power and Right Noelle McAfee, Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship bell hooks, All About Love Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists Emmanuel Eze, Achieving our Humanity Ellen Meiksins Wood, Empire of Capital Page Smith, The Rise of Industrial America Fiction Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude George R. R. Martin, Feast of Crows These books are in no particular order, and, there is an asymmetry between fiction and non-fiction. This partly has to do with my reading interests--I prefer non-fiction--and partly has to do with a lack of recommendations concerning good fiction that I might read. Though since only three of the books on this list have a direct relation to international relations literature, the other texts are bonus knowledge representing a pool of information that may not be directly shared by others who share my interests. My excuse for the fiction is: (1) Solitude is a classic and was purchased for me last year so I should read it, and (2) Feast is the most recent book in a series that some friends and I are reading together. |