I have a box before me, the determination of the disposition of which is at hand. "Huh?" you may well ask. I need room, and gotta choose stuff to throw away. This box is from my first job out of school, when I was as an industrial robotics designer. I…
There are almost 300 of them in this comprehensive list. Dozens of these scandals would seem to constitute impeachable offenses, in my opinion.
Think Progress gives you the line-up of all the major players and tells you where they are now.
Bill Moyers recently interviewed Benjamin Barber, a renowned political theorist and a distinguished senior fellow at Demos — a public policy think tank here in New York City. Barber's most recent book is Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (2007). What's the focus of this book?…
I've been long-intrigued by Hannah Arendt's concept of the banality of evil. Philip Zimbardo turns that concept on its head in an article from Edge, "The banality of evil is matched by the banality of heroism." (you'll need to scroll down to the z's). Zimbardo's article appears as one of…