There was once a world populated by monkeys who had been taught to revere ants. These monkeys were not stupid at all, though to human beings they might seem to be. These monkeys were in many ways the same as what we think of as …
Indicated by the title of William Schulz’s article “Is the ‘Ticking Bomb’ Case Plausible?” the author is presenting a compelling counter-thesis to the hypothetical “ticking bomb” scenario, so often posited by proponents of “necessary” instances of torture. Specifically, Schulz is arguing against Alan Dershowitz’s thesis, …
There once was a King. The King had a beautiful daughter whose beauty filled the entirety of the Kingdom. It came to pass that a pauper desired to marry the daughter because – being a young woman wishing to go about through the Kingdom – …
There once were colonialists who travelled to a far away land. When they arrived they asked, in their own language, to be taken to the king of the land where they had arrived. They spoke a strange language and the people did not understand so …
There once was a King. In his kingdom there were many villages, many people, many animals, hills, valleys, rivers, lakes and streams… Within this kingdom the King built an enormous house for his servants to live in. The house was beautiful and abundant, so far …
There once was a carpenter who wanted to build a great house… This house, however, was not like any other house. This house existed in a land where there were a myriad of apartments; high-priced, high-rise apartments that packed people in where they barely had …
There was once a great Kung Fu fighter… as years went by he learned much not only about his own system but about the systems of other fights. He realized that many techniques, qi kung, ideas about fighting, energy and the like were held in …
Since my early teenage years, I have been involved in various activist and social justice movements, from Food Not Bombs, to the Occupy Movement, and various anti-fascist organizations and action committees. In what follows, I will explain how my path in activist circles, and self-described …
In recent years, even months, there has been a radical shift in the direction of mainstream politics from the status quo of the past two decades. In the early 1990’s it was unimaginable to believe that the then Vice President would be leading the charge …