The Psychology of Victors ; the Chechen Campaign Is a Brutal but Convincing Display Both of Military Power and Government ResolvePatrick Cockburn with the Russian army
Speaking to military personnel on February 6 th , President Trump lamented that terrorist attacks are “not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it.” The implication was that opposition to his seven-country immigration ban arises from...
with an implication or suggestion that retaliatory physical violence might be justified. But “free speech” includes the right not to listen. Taking offence, as the Stoics taught, is always a choice. Offence exists not in the insult but in our reaction ...
They are predestined to set the prophecy in motion when they abandon Oedipus to die on a mountain to avoid the Oracle of Delphi’s prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Laius, Oedipus’s biological father, represents authority and the initial attempt to defy fate by ...
A phrase for our times byThe New York Times’ Noreen Malone.Subtitle, “When 25 million people leave their jobs, it’s about more than just burnout.” Among the insights: “. . . last month a Business Insider article declared that companies ‘are actively driving their white-collar workers...
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman”, 1903How far should we go, to be the best that we can be? If personal greatness lies at the other side of an intense effort, should we strain every muscle, muster every personal resource...
jobs and it still wasn’t enough. I was a teenager and there was no way that I was going to be able to support myself and my sons on my own. Economic reality, that is all. I could give you all the details, like finding care for the boys while working eighty hours a week, but...
Most of us have some awareness of the experiences of earlier generations on this continent, first Native Americans and then waves of immigrants who displaced the first peoples and “settled” those territories. We know those people depended on communities of similarly situated fo...
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arguments – boring (and effeminate?). How about stories of effects on real people, like women suffering the agony of pregnancy denied the aid that health workers are not allowed to give, or mothers trying to find an apartment they can afford with the two jobs they hold down while raising...