December 14, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller An editorial in Friday's Dallas Morning News argued that Hillary Clinton, the incoming U.S. Secretary of State, should move to "close our diplomats' religion deficit." The argument was that in order to succeed in international relations, it's...
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December 5, 2008
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_141" align="alignleft" width="350" caption=""carry out family planning""][/caption] By James Miller I've been following Andrew Revkin's dot Earth blog at the New York Times. The tag-line of the blog is "Nine Billion People. One Planet" and is premised on the demographic...
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December 4, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller The image of China in the Western media is often that of a monolithic totalitarian state, run by a cabal of shady figures in Beijing whose decisions affect the lives of downtrodden millions. When I bring visitors to...
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December 1, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller In October I was invited to participate in a symposium on International Perspectives on Nature and Culture organized by the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. I was on a panel responding to...
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