...Jennifer Hubbert The Olympic games have long served as a platform for political debate and ideological expression, and the 2008 Beijing games were no exception. The United States Olympic team selection of “Lost Boy of Sudan” and Team Darfur spokesperson Lopez Lomong as its flag bearer made...

... spectacular industrial entertainment” of the medium itself, film, and its greatest commodity, electric light, which “contributes to the depth of a modern world of spectacle.” The issue shifts in tone with Jennifer Hubbert, whose “The Darfur Olym...

... that could embarrass him (Allen D. Hertzke, “The Shame of Darfur,” First Things, October 2005, www.firstthings.com/print.php?type=article&year=2007&month=01&title _link=the-shame-­ of-­ darfur-­ 4 positions 23:4  November 2015...

..., Darfur, India, and Iraq are, if anything, more dangerous than those to which the poet was responding. Tagore believed that India could occupy a nodal point between the West and the East in a diachronic trajectory, as well as on a synchronic...