Category Archives: Sociology

United States: Comment On The 2013 State Of The Union

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa President Obama delivered his State of the Union address to the joint session of the United States Congress on February 12, 2013. He laid out his policy agenda for his second term in office … Continue reading

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Sustainability And Corruption

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The purpose of this article is to articulate the logic of the relationship between the level of corruption in any society and the sustainability of the society. This analysis is equally applicable to … Continue reading

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Novus Regere: The New Regionalism

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa In this paper, I coin the phrase Novus Regere to literally mean New Region in Latin or New Regionalism in English. I Regere Slicing the global agora by its polis is as old as … Continue reading

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Uncivil Societies

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (This is the second of two articles. The first was written by me in Fall 2002 when I was a graduate student of public policy at Georgetown University, as a critique of the … Continue reading

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Howard Roark’s Diagnosis Of Society: The Mediocrity Syndrome

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Reverend Samuel American Dollar. He is everybody’s uncle. He comes in Red, Blue and White and not in Scott Malcomson’s one drop of the staining Red, White or Black blood of Philip Roth. … Continue reading

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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda And The Road To 9/11 By Lawrence Wright, A Film Review

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa I The Aspiration of Osama Bin Laden Surat An-Nisa, “Women” Sura 4 Verse 78 (4:78), Al-Quran To capture the fever at the epicenter of the struggle for the soul of Islam, Middle East … Continue reading

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Is He Mr Obama?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is coming out. No. The agency is not gay. It is revealing what it has been doing all along. It will be now in your face. As in … Continue reading

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Defining Deviancy Down

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Let them who gave us the republic do their job. It, the republic, is theirs to keep or to change. My response to Benjamin Franklin. The rodeo of economic recovery after the crisis of … Continue reading

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James Eagan Holmes, 24

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (Source: NBC News on Twitter, From the Arapahoe County, CO Sheriff’s Office/KUSA) Mr. Holmes had been a shy, awkward boy who once seemed bound for big things. He was a science student from … Continue reading

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Information And Communication Technologies (ICTs) Do Not Substitute For The “Limitations” Of Economic Policy

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke gave a speech on September 24, 2010 about the implications of the 2007-2008 financial crisis for economic science and policy. He effectively conceded that the (continuing) crisis is … Continue reading

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