The US has 57 times as many school shootings as other G7 countries combined A man – almost always a man – commonly with no criminal history and no diagnosis of mental illness, armed with a lawfully obtained semiautomatic ‘assault’ weapon, kills and injures a large number of innocents in a place they imagined to… Read More Three nations that experienced mass shootings did something about it / Multiple people dead in shooting on Tulsa hospital campus / America is steeped in violence. And the roots of that violence go deep

Fascination with the relationship between knowledge and power never dies. In just about every intellectual tradition, in essentially every documented era, the topic bristles through the canon, though the European tradition appears especially fixated upon it. Are the two domains compatible? Are they even distinct? Does the latter corrupt the former? While the philosophical treatments… Read More Michael D. Gordin: One Must Imagine Faust Happy

I am in blood, Stepped in so far, that,  should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er: Macbeth I have spent most of my adult life in war. I began in Central America during the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, where I spent five years, on to the Middle… Read More How With This Rage. BY CHRIS HEDGES (2005)