Jeune Street
Blog URL http://www.jeunestreet.com
Located Oxford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom
Tags Religion, Governance, World Development, International Affairs
Jeune Street is about the roles and relationships between religion, governance and world development. It is written from a Baha’i perspective
Latest Blog Posts
- Making it right on Nov 22, 2009 in Travel World Development African Studies Association Brad Pitt Lower Ninth Ward Make it Right Foundation New Orleans
The posting has been light over the past week because I’ve been attending the African Studies Association conference in New Orleans. The conference itself has been terrific. Highlights have included several excellent papers on China and India i...
- Double standards on Nov 18, 2009 in Governance World Development borders Equatorial Guinea Migration Teodoro Obiang
We need more journalism like this: Several times a year, Teodoro Nguema Obiang arrives at the doorstep of the United States from his home in Equatorial Guinea, on his way to his $35 million estate in Malibu, Calif., his fleet of luxury cars, his spee...
- Making innovation happen on Nov 16, 2009 in World Development Fareed Zakaria Higher education innovation
Fareed Zakaria has a fascinating take on trends in American innovation: American culture is open and innovative. But it was powerfully shaped and enhanced by a series of government policies. Silicon Valley did not arise in a vacuum. It grew in the 19...
- The Chinese century? on Nov 10, 2009 in World Development
Maybe, maybe not. Reihan Salaam argues that it depends on China’s openness to immigration: As China emerges as an economic and cultural superpower… notions of Third World solidarity, always skin deep, seem to have vanished. It is thus har...
- Introducing Africa on Nov 9, 2009 in World Development Africa
This gave me a good chuckle. Because it’s so true… (Just returned from a wonderful brief trip to Oxford, where Lita went through her fully fanfared degree ceremony in the Sheldonian. Check the photos on Facebook.)...
- The truth about email (and blogging) on Nov 4, 2009 in Other
I agree: E-mail in particular and online writing in general have their well-known flaws and limitations, but they have also served as cleansing agents for prose, much as journalistic writing did early in the 20th century. That is, while they may disi...
- True religion on Nov 3, 2009 in Religion Karen Armstrong liberal religion Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat can always be counted on to provide an insightful and thoroughly Catholic insight into vexing moral and religious issues. His review of Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God is no different. After lauding Armstrong’s book for mo...
