Jeremiah Bourque
Twitter: jbtutor
Articles and Posts by Jeremiah Bourque
On Power, Authority, and Egypt
January 30, 2011
Tags: authority, economics, Egypt, freedom, Juan Cole, Middle East, politics, power, revolt
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Analyzing the Revolts In a long analysis of the Egyptian unrest and the possibility of the overthrow of the Mubarak presidency, long-time left-of-center middle east observer Juan Cole wrote in “Egypt’s Class Conflict“: Why has the Egyptian state lost its legitimacy? Max Weber distinguished between power and authority. Power flows from the barrel of a…
Stretching The Human Psyche
January 12, 2011
Tags: elegance, leadership, monarchy, orientalism, philosophy, politics, regalism, sociology, strategy, theory
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An Idea That Didn’t Come Easily It is not an exaggeration to say that I spent a large chunk of my life working towards what I am writing in this article. I knew there was something here, and I was searching for specifics, but those specifics – and words useful for describing them – were…
Leadership, Business, and Animal Spirits
December 31, 2010
Tags: animal spirits, drive, energy, leadership, Lifestyle, Online Business, sun tzu, taoism
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The Spiritual Core As readers of this blog may be aware, I am a person who has thoroughly read and studied Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. I even wrote a book explaining the terse passages at some length, with less arcane language, though I’d be kidding if I said it was successful; I just…
BP Oil Spill: A Disaster of Leadership and Strategy
December 26, 2010
Tags: BP, British Petroleum, leadership, New York Times, oil, Online Business, safety, spill, strategy, sun tzu
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A Failure In Leadership This article is based on a historically important article in the New York Times on the BP oil disaster. I will be referencing this article. Point of Failure #1 The article, which is important and should be read in full, walks us through publicly known (though not all well known) data…
9th Innings, Closers, and Politics
December 22, 2010
Tags: comprehension, English, ESL, idioms, language, politics, sports
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Baseball Idioms In Politics Here’s an excerpt from this article on a bill to boost health compensation to “first responders” (health workers, firefighters, police officers) who responded to the World Trade Center attacks and are believed to have suffered higher rates of cancer etc. as a result. “It’s the ninth inning and we need a…
Prosecuting Wikileaks and Assange Still A Dream
December 19, 2010
Tags: Assabge, Biden, DOJ, Justice Department, leaks, Manning, media, News, prior restraint, vice-president, VP, Wikileaks
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It’s Not Realistic Background Here If you peruse the above article, U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden is carrying the flag for Department of Justice (DOJ) efforts to prosecute Julian Assange, who Biden characterizes as more of a “high-tech terrorist” than a publisher of secrets. Let’s back up for a second and review a salient fact in…