Commentaries

Corporate Wall of Shame

Listed below are major American corporations that have refused to sign an agreement to invest in worker safety in Bangladesh and elsewhere despite the recent over 10, 000 deaths in a Bangladesh garment factory crash: Walmart Gap Macy’s Sears/Kmart JCPenney…

Journey Toward Open Access

I seriously encountered the question of open access knowledge in 2006 while teaching a graduate course. As my course was focused on the postcolonial novel, all students were required to give a country presentation about their assigned novel. During these…

Arab Spring in Pakistan? No, Thanks

In an interesting and slightly misguided article about the possibilities of an Arab Spring in Pakistan, Michael Kugelman, (a senior program associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC) begins his opinion piece…