The shiny stuff (political scandals, celebrity nonsense, and more) in the long run, does not matter. We must turn away from the distractions, but it’s hard when those who “design” the distractions are very V
A stubborn adherence tomaterialism/physicalismis the root cause of everything from terrorism to disease.For this reason, many are leaving it in favor of religion and various cults. However, this splintering of civilization is our downfall.Cults and religions that are even more inaccurate and damagi...
— Armenia and Azerbaijan both spoke at the General Debate. Both critiqued the international community's response to thesituation in Nagorno-Karabakh,albeit for different reasons. Neither, interestingly, made use of the right of reply after speeches concluded Satur...
What is Hezbollah? Modern-day Lebanon was founded in 1920 under a sectarian system that saw official government positions shared out among a number of recognized religious sects in the country. The militant group Hezbollah was formed in 1982 as a Shiite Muslim political and military force, with ...
There are constant tensions between Kosovo’s government and ethnic Serb residents who live mostly in the north of Kosovo and who keep close ties to Belgrade. Mitrovica, the main city in the north, is effectively divided into an ethnic Albanian part and a Serb-held part, and the two si...
Jeremy Bentham describes his "greatest happiness principle" in "Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation," a 1789 publication. He wrote, "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought...
An example of a rational consumer would be a person choosing between two cars. Car B is cheaper than Car A, so the consumer purchases Car B. While rational choice theory is logical and easy to understand, it is often contradicted in the real world. For example, political factions that wer...
Current economic situation A 29-country average of 37% say the current economic situation in their country is good, down 1pp from last month. The US sees the biggest month-on-month increase, up 6pp to 44%. This is the country’s highest good economy score in almost three years (44% ...
Finally, we focused on the political dimension. There were only a few cases in which it was approached with a certain level of complexity, from critical postures, and relating actively the knowledge provided by the actors being part of the education situation. It is worthy to highlight two ar...
of responsibility or obligation. They really just want to come to college and explore what's available. And I think that if you are a student who's in that sort of a situation, then I think maybe you need to really consider whether or not an honors college is a good place for you...