Should you have children? These five philosophical questions can help you decide
Unthinkable: Procreating to ‘save the West’ is probably a bad idea, but what’s a good reason to have children?
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Unthinkable: Procreating to ‘save the West’ is probably a bad idea, but what’s a good reason to have children?
I asked a few weird fiction writers and editors to send me one question each for Thomas Ligotti. Here's the result! With questions by Jeffrey Ford, Michael Cisco, John Langan, S.P. Miskowski, Ramsey Campbell, Joe Pulver, and others.
On Friday 26th January 2024 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its judgment in South Africa’s application for ‘provisional measures’ against Israel under the Genocide Convention of 1948. Having focused primarily on civilian suffering in Gaza over the past 100 days, the court found sufficient ‘plausible’ evidence that genocide might be in issue. It therefore instructed Israel to implement various ‘provisional measures’ so as to ‘prevent’ genocide from occurring.
Anthea Jeffrey dissects the broader implications for international humanitarian law as a result of the ICJ's ruling against Israel.