“What happens when you relinquish any understanding of objective moral goods and evils…how can we come to agreement on how we should run society? And so what is left but the will to power?” says Noelle Mering, a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center where she co-directs EPPC...
[3] This is the opposite of what happens in injuries to the brain, whether from outward violence, inward rupture or tumor, or mere starvation from disease. The cortical permeability seems reduced, so that excitement, instead of propagating itself laterally through the ideational channels as before...
It also stood to reason that persons who wear Che Guevara shirts are unable to recognise an actual revolution when it happens because their fetish about revolution was based on State Capitalism and not true Socialism, and they still follow the dogma of the frames provided by those who promote ...
Vice President Dick Cheney was asked if a "dunk in the water" was an acceptable form of prisoner interrogation. When he answered in the affirmative, many people took that to be an
Seven themes are identified; the overarching theme is one of dehumanisation due to the asylum process and public discourse. Narrative analysis demonstrates how experiences of torture and lack of control in countries of origin continued in UK. Moreover, the asylum process inhibited people reconciling...
Human biocultural reproduction is successful only with true well-being, and this happens when young people have hope. Hope comes from opportunities to participate in healthy social and community environments, when the young are part of systems of meaningful informal and formal education, and when the...
After the band played “Fields of Gold” by Sting 26 times, the team was announced. The audience stood and they guys streamed in, dark-suited and not a one of them looking like they could punch your lights out. Every woman in the room moved her wedding ring to the opposite hand. On...
This strikes me as fantasy, akin to Mexico paying for the wall. Even if it were legal to charge asylum-seekers a fee, most of these people have little or no money. That’s why they’re here. Trump struggled during his first term to deport large numbers of migrants, particularly those ...
We’re spending a billion dollars to build a new prison and I have just one question: what happens when that is full? Build another? That will be another billion bucks poured down a bottomless hole. The reality is that the prison population had been on the rise for 70 years and was pr...
One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) More like ...