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Still, it confirmed that those born after 1967 (the Biafra War) have never experienced war and have been taking caution in the narrative left for them by their parents.

It will certainly not be possible to prevent ECOWAS from military action in Niger Republic because war is ingrained in everyone.

From the blog of Hannah Gal at The Times of Israel

There’s a book called The Better Angels of Our Nature by Stephen Pinker, which argues that the world has become less violent as the arc of moral progress trends towards enlightenment. I can’t read that book because Pinker’s description of the creative ways humans have tortured each other makes me feel ill.

Secretary Antony J. Blinken in a Conversation With Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass -

Doing Good, Becoming Better, Following Leaders “I’ve lived my life at the exact half-way point between joy and rage, gratitude and dismay… I would think well of us if I’d never read a history book. Or read a newspaper. Or the comments sections of the Internet… “Is the world more terrible than beautiful? More beautiful than terrible? How can I praise such a world? How can I be

Some Harvard professors are joining in an alliance to defend freedom of speech and academic freedom on one of America's most famous campuses.

Part One is the necessary introduction to Part Two. Please read it before reading this. Birth of the West: demokratia and demos in ancient Athens As I said in Part One, my Learning In Retirement at Selkirk College students are self-aware citizens; various puzzles for defining democracy came up in class when we spoke about being informed by the news as a duty of citizenship.

Part One is the necessary introduction to Part Two. Please read it before reading this. Birth of the West: demokratia and demos in ancient Athens As I said in Part One, my Learning In Retirement at Selkirk College students are self-aware citizens; various puzzles for defining democracy came up in class when we spoke about being informed by the news as a duty of citizenship.

So far the only remotely in-depth and critical review of Political Ponerology I've found is this one, from the keyboard of Ramon Glazov, written in 2020: "(((Bearded schizoidal fanatics))): pathologising character in the Trump era." I haven't run...