The Palouse Pundit Nick Gier (personal home page)
The columns below start every week as a radio commentary on Radio Free Moscow (KRFP 92.5 FM). To play the MP3s click here.
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November 18, 2009: We Are All Bushmen and Women
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December 25,
2005: The Christmas Story and Other Redeeming Myths
(PDF File)
December 28,
2005: The Deceptions of War: Cooking the Intelligence
on Iraq
(PDF File)
January. 4, 2006: Why
Not Democracy in the Workplace?
(PDF File)
January 14, 2006:
Gandhi, King, and Thoreau: Three Principles of Civil Disobedience
(PDF File)
January 18, 2006:
A Woman's Right to Choose Hangs in the Balance
(PDF File)
January 25, 2006:
Happy 300th Birthday, Ben! Franklin and Religious Liberalism
(PDF File)
February 1, 2006:
The Many Sins of Moscow's New St. Andrews College
(PDF File)
February 8, 2006:
A Runaway Train: Administrative Salaries Steam Ahead of Faculty
(PDF File)
February 15, 2006: Was Katrina the Wrath of God? (PDF File)
February 22, 2006: Happy 274th Birthday, George! (PDF File)
March 1, 2006: Karma, Character, and America's Destiny (PDF File)
March 8, 2006: We Are All Liberals: Well, Almost All (PDF File)
Marh 15, 2006: The Wonder that Was--and Still is--India
March 22, 2006:
Would Saddam Have Been Better? Three Disastrous Years
in Iraq
(PDF File)
March 29, 2006: Anti-Intellectualism and America's Future (PDF File)
April 4, 2006: The Gospel of Weak Belief (PDF)
April 11, 2006: Mad Max Meets Jesus Christ (PDF File)
April 18, 2006:
Chilling Parallels between Christian and Islamic
Fundamentalists
(PDF File)
April 25, 2006: Why Reagan Can't Save the Republicans (PDF File)
May 2, 2006: The Real Meaning of Sodomy (PDF File)
May 9, 2006: Mongolia: The Land of Chinggis Khan (PDF File)
May 17, 2006:
The Moment of Truth for America's Death Penalty
(PDF File)
May 23, 2006:
The Brutality Connection: Abu Ghraib and America's Prisons
(PDF File)
May 30, 2006: Is the Gap so Great between Retro Red and Metro Blue? (PDF File)
June 6, 2006: "Happy Hour" Is Not What Aristotle Had in Mind (PDF File)
June 13, 2006: Liberals: Take Back the Flag! (PDF File)
June 20, 2006: "Bring Them On!" Al-Zarqawi Heeds Bush's Call (PDF File)
June 27, 2006:
Good King Now, but Bad King Later? Bhutan, Nepal, and
Democracy
(PDF File)
July 4, 2006:
Thank Adams and Jefferson for 230 Years without
Religious Conflict
(PDF File)
July 11, 2006:
Long Live the Braceros: Essential Guest Workers not Felons
(PDF
File)
July 18, 2006:
CIA Torture in Vietnam, Latin America, and Iraq, Part I
(PDF File)
July 25, 2006: CIA Torture, Part II (PDF File)
August 1, 2006:
Historical Revisionism at Moscow's Trinity Festival
(PDF File)
August 8, 2006: Moscow School Among the Top 40 Bible Colleges (PDF File)
August 15, 2006: Iraq: One Step Forward; Three Steps Back (PDF File)
August 22, 2006: Vietnam, Iraq, and Lebanon: Superpower Overkill Backfires (PDF File)
September 5, 2006: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (PDF File)
September 12, 2006: Un-Declaring the War on Terror (PDF File)
September 19, 2006: The Woman Who Drew the Boundaries of Iraq (PDF File)
September 26, 2006: You're Doing a Heckuva Job on the Economy, Bushie! (PDF File)
October 3, 2006: Happy 137th Birthday, Gandhi! (PDF File)
October 10, 2006: Afghanistan as Narcostan as well as Jihadistan (PDF File for 2006 version)
October 17, 2006: Congress Caves Into Bush on Detainee Bill (PDF File)
October 24, 2006: Should Former Deans Retain Their High Salaries? (PDF File)
October 31, 2006: What Part of Equality Don't You Understand? (PDF File)
November 7, 2006: Convergence not Conversion: Religious Unity in India (PDF File)
November 14, 2006: Some Reflections on Veterans Day, 2006 (PDF File available)
November 21, 2006: Buddhist Nationalism and Religious Violence in Sri Lanka (PDF File)
November 28, 2006: Their Souls Live on the Cemetery of Books (PDF File)
December 5, 2006: Virtue, Morality, and Expediency (PDF File)
December 12, 2006: The Man Who Brought the Spanish Inquisition to Chile (PDF File)
December 19, 2006: Whistleblowers Need More Protection at the University of Idaho (PDF File)
December 26, 2006: The Palouse Pundit Looks Back at 2006 (PDF File)
January 2, 2007: Danish Social Democracy and "The Third Way" (PDF File)
January 9, 2007: America's Health Care is a National Disgrace Part 1 (PDF)
January 16, 2007: How Did We Lose Our Racial Color Blindness? (PDF File)
January 23, 2007:
Happy 270th Birthday, Tom Paine: Patriot and Vilified
Theologian
(PDF
File)
January 30, 2007:
Selling Latah Health Services to Gritman Medical Center is a
Wise Idea
(PDF
File)
February 6, 2007:
A Runaway Train 2007: Administrative Salaries Outstrip
Faculty by 99%
(PDF
File)
February 13, 2007: Happy 198th Birthday, Charles Darwin (PDF File)
February 20: Two Presidents Named George and the Golden Rule (PDF File)
February 28: The Deceptions of War Reconfirmed (PDF File)
March 6, 2007: The Queen's "Tribe" is leaving Iraq (PDF File)
March 13, 2007: Ed the Viking, Greenland, and Global Warming (PDF File)
March 20, 2007: The Need for Liberation Theology is Greater than ever (PDF File)
March 27, 2007: Tolerance for Islam in the Early American Republic (PDF File)
April 3: Woman, Bonobos, and Peace (PDF File)
April 10: Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles (PDF File)
April 17: What Ever Happened to the Last Judgment? (PDF file)
April 24: America's Moral Responsibility for Global Warming (PDF File)
May 1: New St. Andrews College Must Earn the Respect of Other Institutions PDF File
May 8: The Imam of Ait Kassem Serves Lunch (PDF File)
May 15, 2007: A Chilling Connection between Nanjing (1853) and Moscow (2003) PDF
May 23, 2007: Catholics May Have Good Reason for Abortion Reform PDF
May 30, 2007: The Passing of an Ugly Giant of the Religious Right PDF
June 6, 2007:
Christ is Commander-in-Chief: Relative Violence in
Islam and Christianity
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June 13, 2007: God is Dead (Again!): Secular Fundamentalists Fight Back PDF JPEG
June 20, 2007: The Global Peace Index: Norway #1; USA #96 JPEG PDF
June 27 2007: King of Morocco Takes His Country in a New Direction JPEG PDF
July 4, 2007: Senator Sam Brownback is Confused about Evolution JPEG PDF
July 11, 2007: The Living Goddess of Bhaktapur Loses Her Job PDF
July 18, 2007: America's Health Care is a National Disgrace Part 2 PDF
July 25, 2007: The Overuse and Abuse of Part-Time Faculty PDF
August 1, 2007: Moscow's Trinity Festival Features Fraudulent Calvinists and Questionable Trinitarians PDF
August 8, 2007: Academic Tenure is Not Sacrosanct: The Cases of Professors Churchill and Maki PDF
August 15, 2007: Muslim Democrats and Republicans Have Ignorant Idaho Detractors PDF
August 22, 2007: Soles Hundreds of Feet Thick: Visualizing Economic Inequality in America PDF
August 29, 2007: Faulty Historical Parallels: Bush, Once Again, Draws the Wrong Lessons PDF
September 5, 2007: Lost in a World of Red and Green: Colorblind Males as Neglected Minority PDF
September 12, 2007: Here's to Good Royalty: A Defense of Constitutional Monarchy PDF
September 19, 2007: IKEA: The Progressive Big Box Store from Sweden PDF
September 26, 2007: Celebrating our Muslim Neighbors by Acknowledging Their Cultural Heritage PDF
October 3, 2007: Moscow's Calvinist College Makes the The New York Times PDF
October 10, 2007: A Denmark Retrospective: Fond Memories for Me and 41 Years of Socio-Economic Progress for the Danes PDF
October 17, 2007: The Three Ironies of Ed Iverson's Report from Eastern Johnbirchistan PDF
October 24, 2007: The 454th Anniversary of the Burning of Michael Servetus PDF
October 31, 2007: Vote for Smart Growth in the City Council Election PDF
November 7, 2007: Benazir Bhutto Returns Home to Cheers and Bombs PDF
November 14, 2007: Station Closed Because of Asbestos Abatement
November 21, 2007: The Failure of Abstinence-Only Sex Education PDF
November 28, 2007: Face to Black Face with King Tut PDF
December 5, 2007: India's Day of Infamy: The Destruction of the Babri Mosque PDF
December 12, 2007: A Sad Chronicle of Complicity: Buddhism and Japanese Nationalism PDF
December 19, 2007: Civility is a Two-Way Street: Moscow's Christ Church and Her Detractors PDF
December 26, 2007: Pontius the Pilot and the Flight to Egypt PDF
January 16, 2008: Bayard Rustin: The Gay Man Who Organized the 1963 March on Washington PDF
January 23, 2008: The Tribulations of Providing and Obtaining a Legal Abortion PDF
January 30, 2008: Why Not Democracy in Higher Education Workplaces? PDF
February 6, 2008: Indonesia: Rich Hindu Past and Moderate Muslim Future PDF
February 13, 2008: Quick Settlement of Wal-Mart Worker Strike is Suspicious PDF
February 20, 2008: Liberal Religion and Abraham Lincoln PDF
February 27, 2008: The Meterley Report: Always Giving 3.37 Inches More Than Yardley PDF
March 5, 2008: "Don't Tread on Me": Americans Rise Up Against Alien Invaders PDF
March 12, 2008: Progress in Iraq is only Temporary or Illusory PDF
March 19, 2008: Tibetans Struggle in Dealing with an Orwellian Government PDF
March 26, 2008: Olympia Brown: Leading Suffragette and First Ordained Woman Minister PDF
April 2, 2008: On the Importance of Three Cups of Tea PDF
April 9, 2008: The Meandering Maverick: No Straight Talk from McCain on Religion PDF
April 16, 2008: One Haitian Woman's Struggle to Save Her People and Her Land PDF
April 23, 2008: Rapa Nui: Case Study in Ecological Disaster PDF
April 30, 2008: Graduate Teaching Assistants: Exploited Labor on America's Campuses PDF
May 7, 2008: The Doctrine of Discovery and the Christian Conquest of the World PDF
May 14, 2008: Good Manners, Civility, and Diplomacy PDF
May 21, 2008: Dear President White: You Owe Us Another Five Years PDF
May 28, 2008: Sandpoint Nurses May Lead Idaho Unions in a New Direction PDF
June 4, 2008: Two Himalayan Kingdoms Decide on Their Kings PDF
June 11, 2008: The U. S. Starts Killings Its Own Again PDF
June 18, 2008: Our Troops Deserve Better When They Come Home PDF
June 25, 2008: Detainees Are People Too: The Supreme Court Upholds the Magna Carta PDF
July 2, 2008: Let's Not Forget the Ladies of the American Revolution PDF
July 9, 2008: Denmark Leads the World in Wind Power PDF
July 16, 2008: Warning to the GOP: Don't Mess with Medicare PDF
July 23, 2008: The People of Moscow Raise $35,000 for Schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan PDF
July 30, 2008: The Lake Woebegon Blues: Where Can I buy a Good Green Car? PDF
August 6, 2008: Barack Obama is Right about the Surge PDF
August 13, 2008: Headscarves, Secularism, and Religious Freedom PDF
August 20, 2008: Please Register Here to Protest, but We Might Arrest You if You Do PDF
August 27, 2008: Krishna and Christ: Hindu and Christian Saviors PDF
September 3, 2008: Restoring Democracy in the American Workplace PDF
September 10, 2008: Obama's Health Plan is Working in the Bay State; McCain's would be a Disaster PDF
September 17, 2008: McCain's Pit Bull Is Waging Cultural War on America PDF
September 24, 2008: Will Sarah Palin Go the Way of Spiro Agnew? Troopergate May Speed Her Departure PDF
October 1, 2008: Gandhi's Deep Religious Pluralism
October 8, 2008: Memo to McCain: The Economy Tanked Long Ago PDF
October 15, 2008: McCain's Straight, but Unwise, Talk on Foreign Policy PDF
October 22, 2008: Palin Destroys McCain's Credibility on Energy and the Environment PDF
October 29, 2008: Why I'm voting for Barack Obama and Joe Biden PDF
November 5, 2008: Hate Crimes Continue Against Gays; Necessary Legislation Stalled PDF
November 12, 2008: The Persecution of Christians in India, Sri Lanka, and Iraq PDF
November 19, 2008: Muslim Challenge Spurs Inter-Faith Dialogue PDF
November 26, 2008: The Persecution of Quakers: Shame on our Puritan Forefathers
December 3, 2008: The Gateway of India becomes a Gateway of Death PDF
December 10, 2008: The Day Confucius Went to the United Nations
December 17, 2008: Happy 405th Birthday, Roger Williams!
December 24, 2008: The Christ Child, Illegitimate Children, and the Meaning of the Gospel PDF
December 31, 2008: UI Athletics Get Big Breaks During Financial Crises
January 7, 2009: Is Forgiveness Really Human and not Divine?
January 14, 2009: The War in Gaza: "Bombing 1.5 Million People in a Cage"
January 21, 2009: The Naked Emperor "Decider" Retires to His Ranch
January 28, 2009: Idaho's University Program Reduction Procedures "Severely Deficient" PDF
Obama's Strengths: Superb Intellect, Openness, and Pragmatism (Los Cabos Daily News) PDF
February 4, 2009: High-Speed Rail is Key for Infrastructure Renewal
February 11, 2009: Brave Somali Woman Rejects Islam with a Vengeance
Februrary 18, 2009: Interrogations Need To Be Humane not "Enhanced"
February 25, 2009: Drug Policy Failures from Nixon to Bush
March 4, 2009: 500,000 Frozen Embryos Cry Out to be Born PDF
March 11, 2009: The Iraq War was not Worth the Sacrifice
March 18, 2009: Internal Pick Best for New University of Idaho President
March 25, 2009: The Bamiyan Buddhas: The Destruction of Afghan Cultural Treasures PDF
April 1, 2009: Animals are People, Too: Overcoming the Myth of Human Uniqueness
April 8, 2009: Palouse Pundit out with a bad cold/flu
April 15, 2009: Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson: "Atheist and Leveler from Virginia" PDF
April 22, 2009: State Faculty Union Responds to Financial Crisis
April 29, 2009: When Good Fishermen Became Bad Bankers: The Collapse of the Icelandic Economy
May 6, 2009: The Power of Pride: Vice or Virtue? PDF
May 13, 2009: Malvina Reynolds: The Poetess of Protest PDF
May 20, 2009: The Party of Nehru and Gandhi Win Big in India PDF
May 27, 2009: Union Cards Instead of Credits Cards PDF
June 3, 2009: U.S. Loses Lead in Higher Education PDF
June 10, 2009: Neo-Puritans Rewrite Salem Witch Trial History PDF
June 17, 2009: University of Idaho Wastes Time and Money on "Chief Inspiration Officer" PDF
June 24, 2009: The Parma Research Station Must Continue Its Essential Work PDF
July 1, 2009: Do You Want Wall Street to Control Your Health Care? PDF
July 8, 2009: The World's Largest Island Closer to Independence PDF
July 15, 2009: Should the Head of Nefertiti and the Elgin Marbles be Returned? PDF
July 22, 2009: Could King Hussein Have Stopped Saddam Hussein? PDF
July 27, 2009: Has Obama Taken His Eyes Off the Prize? PDF
August 2009: Lost in the Bush of Southern Africa
September 9, 2009: Southwest Africa: A Century of Brutual Occupation PDF
September 16, 2009: The Preacher, the Congressman, and the Neo-Confederacy PDF
September 23, 2009: Tutu, Boesak, and Mandela: Giants of South African Liberation PDF
September 30, 2009: Not Yet the Mahatma: Gandhi in South Africa PDF
October 7, 2009: The Constituiton, the University, and Freedom of Speech
October 14, 2009: Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Obama PDF
October 21, 2009: The Crisis in Idaho Higher Education
October 28, 2009: A Tribute to the Rev. Forrest Church: Theologian, Historian, Humanitarian
November 4, 2009: A Great Dream Unfulfilled : The Martin Institute at 30
November 11, 2009: An Update on the Habib Sadid Case