Eddie RyanAn under-appreciated option in UkraineThe first several rounds of Ukraine negotiations did not go well. Hopes for swift deescalation have gradually dimmed amid the stalled…Feb 4, 2022Feb 4, 2022
Eddie RyanIt’s time for a drone strike reckoning (note: update when published)Sometimes, the attitudes of the masses — their own wised up version of the “conventional wisdom” — gets corroborated by official…Jan 17, 2022Jan 17, 2022
Eddie RyanPersuading Putin: prospects for peace in UkraineAfter nearly three hours of presidential telecommunication and an arousing set of treaty demands, it’s safe to say we’ve reached the end of…Jan 17, 2022Jan 17, 2022
Eddie RyanMyanmar update: refugees and international responseIn a recent piece, I focused heavily on the caprice and cruelty of the Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military currently posing as its governing body…Jan 17, 2022Jan 17, 2022
Eddie RyanSeinfeld, abstinence, and global pandemicsIn your travels, you will encounter those who insist to you, smugly and with up-turned nose, that Seinfeld offers no valuable cultural…Jan 17, 2022Jan 17, 2022
Eddie RyanIt has been nearly a year since the coup against Myanmar’s civilian government brought its…At a tense moment in American political life, it’s worth paying attention to Myanmar if only to gain some perspective. (Not intending to…Jan 17, 2022Jan 17, 2022
Eddie RyanGarvey and the Irish: Irish racial status according to early 20th-century pan-AfricanismBetween 1910 and 1925, the Irish struggle for independence served as one of the primary sources of inspiration for Marcus Garvey’s…Dec 22, 2021Dec 22, 2021
Eddie RyanFreud: Psychoanalysis and the Critical TheoryIn two of his most important works, The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents, Freud identifies religious illusion and…Dec 22, 2021Dec 22, 2021
Eddie RyanNietzsche’s normaIn the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche successfully attacks Christian morality and persuasively calls the value of moral values themselves…Dec 22, 2021Dec 22, 2021
Eddie RyanReview of Katherine Anne Porter’s “Pale HIn Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Porter depicts the horrors of both WWI and the global pandemic which succeeded it. Through Miranda, a war weary…Dec 22, 2021Dec 22, 2021
