The occurrence of Chanukah – coming on the 24th day of the month of Kislev – corresponds with approach of the winter solstice. The holiday brings a reminder that no matter how immersed in darkness we are, light will always return. As such, we need …
The entire history of the development of Anti-Jewish propaganda in Ithnā’ `Ashariyyah Shī`īsm is too long a history to recount here. It will suffice, however, to jump forward a few centuries to the Allāhdad massacre of 1839 in Iran. The dismal picture of the severe …
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, …
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 …
EXCLUSIVE! BREAKING NEWS! So while our family was in town to protest the Inauguration of Satan, Friday and Saturday, we went to the infamous and lovely Comet Ping Pong. You know, it’s the place that all the Alt-Right folks say is an underground child sex …