John Hornby:
Legend or Fool
by
Thomas H. Hill
John Hornby was an
Arctic adventurer who decided he
was going to be the first white
man winter in the Barren Grounds
in Canada, a treeless tundra
that spreads between the
woodlands of of Great Bear and
Great Slave Lakes to the west,
Hudson bay to the east, and
north to the Arctic. It is
supposed to be a land of
mystical beauty, but food is
scarce and the climate
brutal. Mr. Hornby died
but a diary survived and is the
basis of the legend. A .pdf file of
the article is available here.
Terrorism in the
United States: A Case Study of
Eric Rudolph, a Homegrown Terrorist
by George H. Conklin
Eric Rudolph is the man
who placed a bomb at the Olympics in
Atlanta, Georgia in 1996. After
blowing up an abortion clinic in
Birmingham in 1998, he went into
hiding in the national forest near
Murphy, North Carolina.
Despite being on the FBI's Most
Wanted List, he remained officially
unseen for five years, hiding in the
woods. Even heat-seeking
helicopters could not find
him. He understood how
dysfunctional large-scale
organizations can be. In many
respects Rudolph was a successful
person, but still finds himself a
lifetime prisoner in supermax.
A .pdf of the
file is available here.
China's First
Great Modern Poet
by Dorothy Trench Bonett
The accomplishments of our
Winter issue's third maverick, Xu
Zhimo, deserve none but the highest
honor, but he may be the one whose
name is least likely to be
recognized. Nonetheless, his impact
on Chinese letters and Chinese
society has been immense, The
author provides also provides an
original translation of one of his
works. A
.pdf file of the article is
available here.
Understanding
China: Dangerous Resentments
by George Du Bois
"Understanding China:
Dangerous Resentments," a thumbnail
version of the author's
recently-published book.
Understanding China's history, he
argues, is crucial to understanding
its interactions with the west as
its impact on the global stage
grows. A .pdf
file of the article is available
here.
