I'm thinking about violence a lot lately. It seems appropriate, now, to write about it, as we just saw actions around the U.S. to commemorate the anniversary of nonviolent activist Martin Luther...
Philosophers and scientists have long proposed theories in which duality is the propelling force of movement and progress - the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's dialectic offered a process...
Shock! Horror! The Truth Is Revealed! Rich business people pay money to politicians in exchange for favourable decisions and politicians comply. Headline news it ain’t. If you live in Ireland...
Every sperm is sacred, goes the old Monty Python song, but it might well be the new motto of the Republican Party in 2011. Since their victory in 2010 midterms, Republican politicians (with a few...
Have you heard the one about the Hamas militant and the IDF soldiers? Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A Hamas militant fires a rocket into Israel. Israel gets defensive and retaliates,...
The gender discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart is over ten years old. It began in 2000, with a woman named Betty Dukes, who had then been employed as a greeter for nearly six years. She alleged...
Lisa Rose Mar, Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era 1885-1945 (Oxford University Press, 201o). In Brokering Belonging, Lisa Rose Mar brings a fresh perspective to Chinese-Canadian...
I’ve been having trouble sleeping this past week. Every night. I go to bed and there is an underlying feeling of guilt that keeps creeping up on me. It chokes me. Makes me lay there at night for...
“What has Muammar Gaddafi been up to for the past two decades? And who are these ‘African mercenaries’ who are killing civilians?” asked confused Western spectators as they watched the Libyan...
Ave! Duci Novo, similis duci seneca or will Ireland ever break free from civil war politics? Sound the fanfare. Bang the drum. After three years of catastrophic economic mismanagement, the Irish have...