Albert Camus

To Be or not to Be... Hopeful

Graham Milne | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Francois Truffaut, Hope, Writing, Optimism, Margaret Thatcher, Albert Camus, Joseph Kony, Zombie Apocalypse, Cliffs Notes, Criticism, Facebook, William Shakespeare, Books News
Graham Milne

"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim." - Margaret Thatcher (great line regardless of whether yo...

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Atheists And The F-Word

David Lose | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Religion, Albert Camus, Alain De Botton, Atheism, Values, Faith, Ethics, Atheism and Faith, Atheists Faith, Religion News
David Lose

The values that guide both our everyday and extraordinary ethical decisions are just that: values, not facts. Values are philosophical or religious speculation about what should be.

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Samuel Beckett's Reading List

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: William Faulkner, Albert Camus, Reading List, Jules Verne, Catcher in the Rye, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Books News

From This Side of the Pond, Cambridge University Press' Blog Samuel Beckett’s letters are full of the literary names he encountered through his w...

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Movie Review: My Afternoons with Margueritte

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: My Afternoons With Margueritte Movie Review, My Afternoons With Margueritte, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Albert Camus, Marshall Fine Movie Reviews, Gerard Depardieu, Movies, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

His recent airplane exploits aside, Gerard Depardieu remains one of the great actors of French film. And the fabulous brute adds further to his legacy with the comic, touching My Afternoons with Margueritte.

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New Albert Camus Literary Conspiracy Theory

The Observer | Kim Willsher in Paris | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Albert Camus, Albert Camus Conspiracy Theory, Literary Conspiracy Theories, Books News

When the French philosopher, author and inveterate womaniser Albert Camus died in a car accident in 1960 just two years after winning the Nobel prize ...

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An Iranian Suicide

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Siamak Pourzand Suicide, Siamak Pourzand, Evin Prison, Mohamed Bouazizi, Suicide, Szmuel Zygielbojm, Iran, Albert Camus, Jan Palach, Azadeh Pourzand, World News
Ben S. Cohen

A prominent journalist and critic before the Islamist seizure of power in 1979, Siamak Pourzand had endured more than three decades of vicious harassment at the hands of the regime.

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Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ceuca, Rotary International, Loyola University Maryland, Great Lakes College Association, Catholic Relief Services, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Peace, Sargent Shriver, Martin Buber, Global Citizens, Hubert Humphrey, Afs, Paul Tillich, U.S. Olympic Committee, Africa, Turfism, Harris Wofford, Peter Paul and Mary, Peacemaking, I Have a Dream Speech, Rwanda, Poverty, Alliance for Peacebuilding, Washington D.C., Paul Stevers, Albert Camus, Apprentice House, Experiment in International Living, George Mcgovern, Sister Cities, Operation Respect, Fulbright Scholars, Martin Luther King, Hutus, Colombia, Glca, Jimmy Carter, Carol Bellamy, Peace Through Moderation, Tutsis, Mercy Corps, Thought Leaders, Extremism, Ethiopia, Sam Farr, Social Responsibility, Affluence, Jim Luce, Charles ?€œChic? Dambach, Peace Corps, Fidel Castro, U.N., Kai Dambach, Exhaust the Limits:, Justice, Conflict Resolution, Peter Yarrow, Bill Clinton, Care, Les Miserables, Nea, U.S. Foreign Aid, New York City, Oiww, Appalachia, Fundamentalist Mindset, Bogotá, Three Cups of Tea, Haiti, Orphans International Worldwide, Techendama, Eritrea, World News
Jim Luce

Although our lives have turned out different, I learned in my friend Charles "Chic" Dambach's exciting new book, Exhaust the Limits, that we have much...

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Progressive Hope

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Thanksgiving, Jobs, Albert Camus, Civil Rights Movement, Economics, Hope, Politics News
Mike Lux

Through decades of violence, derision, arrests, intimidation, our progressive ancestors never gave into despair and defeatism. We should take their example to heart.

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Son Objects to Moving Albert Camus's Remains To Pantheon

AP | JAMEY KEATEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarkozy, France, Camus, Albert Camus, Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy, Pantheon, World News

PARIS — Albert Camus' children are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern France to Pari...

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A New Year's Resolution for France- Put Albert Camus In The Pantheon

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Pantheon, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Alexander Shelepin, Albert Camus, Nicholas Sarkozy, Kgb, Andrei Sakharov, Marcel Cerdan, Frank Wisner Jr., Frank Wisner, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Hillary Clinton, Encounter, Jean-Paul Sartre, Stalinism, World News
Eric Ehrmann

While the left snivels over the literary Camus, the compte rendu on the author is that of an individual who touched the world in an effort to promote the universal rights of man implicit in the French social contract.

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Newspapers, Not Books, Are the Key to Engaging Budding College Students

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Students, Internet, Newspapers, College, Books, Novels, 9/11, Charles Dickens, Paradise Lost, Albert Camus, Herman Melville, The Plague, Edmund Spenser, Students, John Milton, Chaucer, Media News
Danny Groner

The acts of reading the newspaper and participating in conversation about current affairs are worth more to young college students than interpreting foreign works, no matter their messages.

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Should the French Socialist Party Die?

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Albert Camus, Bernard Kouchner, Socialist Party, Jean Paul Sartre, The Left, Nouvel Observateur, May 1968 France, Socialism, French Socialist Party, French Left, World News
Bernard-Henri Lévy

Am I right to say of today's Socialist Party that it is the "large corpse falling backward" that Jean-Paul Sartre has already diagnosed?

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Writing Under the Influence, Living Under the Influence

David Finkle | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Literature, Exile and the Kingdom, Elizabeth Hawes, Philosophy, Built of Books, The Stranger, Thomas Wright, The Plague, Albert Camus, A Happy /Death, Biography, Oscar's Books, Philosophy of the Absurd, The First Man, Entertainment, Camus--a Romance, Memoir, Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Healthy Living News
David Finkle

Although her title is an eyebrow-raiser, Elizabeth Hawes knows what she's doing. With Camus, a Romance, her new and unconventional work, she isn't simply writing a biography.

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Words and War

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civilian Deaths, Air Strikes, Pentagon, Country Joe McDonald, War, Albert Camus, Afghanistan, Washington Post, Barack Obama, Warfare State, Iraq, World News
Norman Solomon

There's plenty more media invisibility and erasure ahead for Afghan people as the Pentagon ramps up its war effort in their country.

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Midwinter Options: When You Can't Find Peace Without, Choose Peace Within

Jason Mannino | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Los Angeles, Albert Camus, Switzerland, Church, God, Peace, Economy, Spirituality, Christmas, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Jason Mannino

I ran into a friend at the gym last week. Originally from Switzerland, he has been living in Los Angeles for 20 years. Ten years ago he and his partne...

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In Honor of The Annapolis, Md. Middle East Peace Talks: A Short Viewing/Reading List

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Rushing, Mission Al Jazeera, The Sirens of Baghdad, Shadow of Afghanistan, The Attack, Jimmy Carter Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, A Thousand Splendid Sons, The Kite Runner, Albert Camus, Khaled Hosseini, Annapolis Peace Conference, The Kite Runner Movie, Children of Heaven, Greg Mortenson, Mohammed Moulessehoul, West Bank Story, Condoleezza Rice, Three Cups of Tea, Robert Schaefer, Offside, Lee Shapiro, Jimmy Carter, Yasmina Khadra, David Oliver Relin, Jafar Panahi, Majid Majidi, Bahman Ghobadi, Turtles Can Fly, Media News
Paige Donner

The Sirens of Baghdad I read in one sitting. I could not put this book down. It is not harsh in a way that watching images of war on CNN are harsh. But it is painful in a way that impels you to ask, But wait! Aren't we all human?

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