[[Ljubodrag Simonovic, ‘Duci’ to his friends, but straight up ‘Simonovic’ to the many admirers of his heroism both on the basketball court and in the arena of political philosophy, is my dear friend, comrade and teacher.

Though I didn’t know it at the time, I was preparing to meet Simonovic in March 1999 during the short-lived demonstrations in Paris against the NATO bombing of Serbia over its southern province of Kosovo. A couple of the chants at that manif that stuck with me were:

‘NATO is Mafia—Kosovo is Serbia!’

and

‘Clinton in Monica—Kosovo in Serbia!’

After that first street rally ...   more »