We don’t usually do calendar-blogging here at the Lamp, but readers interested in America’s adventurous foreign policy should take note: Journalist Nir Rosen, known for risky, in-depth reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan, is on campus for a guest lecture at 1:30 this afternoon in Marshall 490.  If you’ve got time between classes, do your homework: here’s an excellent profile from the New York Review of Magazines (“I’m closest to anarchist, I guess”), a brief interview on the WikiLeaks document dumps (“I think undermining that war in any way possible is a good thing”), and a Rolling Stone article written after embedding with the Taliban. Nothing cures a case of the Mondays like a reminder of the collapse of Iraqi society under American occupation–come on down!