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GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB DIES: WHY SHE MATTERS TODAY

1/3/2020

MORAL COURAGE & IDEAS

MYRON MAGNET
The Last Victorian Sage
Gertrude Himmelfarb, 1922–2019

AEI mourns loss of Gertrude Himmelfarb
Robert Doar | AEIdeas
The start of the new year was tempered and made somber and more serious by the loss of AEI’s great friend Gertrude Himmelfarb. Known to family and friends as Bea Kristol (1922–2019), she was a national treasure and a highly valued member of the AEI family for more than three decades. Full Story

The historian as moralist
Yuval Levin | National Review
To have achieved all that Gertrude Himmelfarb did professionally while also building a thriving family and amassing countless friends, readers, students, and admirers is the mark of an exceptional human being.

Walking humbly with Himmelfarb
Tal Fortgang | AEIdeas

Gertrude Himmelfarb: The American historian of liberalism
Flavio Felice | Tocqueville-Acton

Remembering Gertrude Himmelfarb with Yuval Levin
Yuval Levin | "Acton Line"

MEXICAN'S MARCH ON FEMICIDE

11/5/2019

Mexico: Demonstrators March Against Femicide. Protesters marched through Mexico City on Sunday to compel Mexican authorities to do more to address the killing of women. The demonstrators carried purple crosses, each one representing a murdered woman. Femicide, a gender motivated murder of a woman, kills nine women in Mexico each day according to the United Nations. BBC VOA News

MACKENZIE EAGLEN: WOMEN & US WAR INSTITUTIONS

10/20/2019

Mackenzie Eaglen argues that with the current lack of women occupying senior-level positions in government, central institutions that make life-and-death decisions need people with a range of experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives. Learn more here.

Getting the Story Right about Wargaming by ED McGrady

Getting the Most out of Your Wargame: Practical Advice for Decision-Makers by Elizabeth Bartels

Thinking Historically: A Guide for Strategy and Statecraft by Francis J. Gavin

WARGAMING & WOMEN

10/4/2019

Rereading Thucydides: Where are the Women?
By Kate Tollenaar, Strategy Bridge: "In 1994, John Keegan wrote, “If warfare is as old as history and as universal as mankind, we must now enter the supremely important limitation that it is an entirely masculine activity.”"

'I Run Wargames. Too Often, I Am the Only Woman in the Room
'RAND's Becca Wasser designs, runs, and manages wargames for U.S. military and government officials. In wargaming, you have to learn by doing, she says. But women face significant barriers to entering—and advancing in—the field. Why is it important to have gender diversity in wargaming? Without women leaders, designers, or players in these games, opportunities to uncover new and innovative strategies are falling by the wayside. Plus, she says: "If women have a place on the battlefield...then I have a place in wargaming." Read more »

VERA GRAN: THE ACCUSED; POLAND AND THE BLOOD LANDS OF EASTERN EUROPE

10/1/2019

RAND CORP., CORTNEY WEINDBAUM TACKLES AI & ETHICS FOR THE INTEL COMMUNITY

9/5/2019

Intel, Ethics, and Emerging Tech: Q&A with Cortney Weinbaum
Cortney Weinbaum studies topics related to intelligence and cyber policy as a senior management scientist at RAND. In this interview, she discusses challenges facing the intelligence community, the risks of using AI as a solution, and ethics in scientific research. Read more »

SAUDI FILMMAKER TACKLES OPRESSION IN ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION

9/1/2019

ASIA TIMES

GERMAINE TILLION: FRANCE'S BEST PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST & ALGERIAN SPECIALIST

8/25/2019

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ANN MARLOW: A CONTEMPORARY FALLACI

8/25/2019

ANNMARLOWE.COM

THE DAILY BEAST

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

TWITTER: @annmarlowe

SHEEREEN EL-FEKI: THE CHANGING MORES OF ARAB-MUSLIM CIVILIZATION

8/25/2019

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