Tag: the human mind

Is the One-Sided US Response to the Gaza Crisis a Sign of Civilizational Decline?

American politicians, the mainstream media, a powerful segment of academia – all have marginalized the faculty of critical thinking. The paradox is that modern academic disciplines claim to follow Socratic Method of inquiry but in reality, they blatantly follow Sophistic relativistic philosophy and seem unable to confront the corrupting influence of money in American politics… Read More Is the One-Sided US Response to the Gaza Crisis a Sign of Civilizational Decline?

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Wrestling with relativism

Bernard Williams argued that one’s ethics is shaped by culture and history. But that doesn’t mean that everyone is right Daniel Callcut Travel and history can both inspire a sense of moral relativism, as they did for the Greek historian and traveller Herodotus in the 5th century BCE. What should one make of the fact… Read More Wrestling with relativism

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Marked by Stars: Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy

By Anthony Grafton Reading Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s encyclopedic study of magic is like stumbling into a vast cabinet of curiosities, where toad bones boil water, witches transmit misery through optical darts, and numbers, arranged correctly, can harness the planets’ powers. Anthony Grafton explores the Renaissance polymath’s occult insights into the structure of the universe, discovering a… Read More Marked by Stars: Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy

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Delhi Court Upholds Release Of Electronics Devices Seized From Editors Of ‘The Wire’, Says Police Causing Undue Hardship To Them

A Delhi Court has dismissed a plea moved by the Delhi Police against a magisterial court’s order which ordered the release of the electronic devices seized from editors of “The Wire” during searches conducted in October last year in relation to an FIR lodged against them by BJP leader Amit Malviya. The judge added that… Read More Delhi Court Upholds Release Of Electronics Devices Seized From Editors Of ‘The Wire’, Says Police Causing Undue Hardship To Them

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Professor Rita Giacaman on The Psychosocial Health of Palestinian Youth: Occupation and Resistance (2018)

In this presentation on ‘The Psychosocial Health of Palestinian Youth: Occupation and Resistance’, Professor Rita Giacaman addresses the impact on wellbeing on young Palestinians as a result of prolonged military occupation. In exploring this issue, Professor Giacaman also considers the positive steps Palestinian youth take to resist the oppressive conditions they face. Decades of studying… Read More Professor Rita Giacaman on The Psychosocial Health of Palestinian Youth: Occupation and Resistance (2018)

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‘It’s lonely being a Jewish critic of Israel’ – Nathan Thrall on his book about a Palestinian father’s tragedy

Rachel Cooke In the days since the attacks by Hamas in southern Israel, Nathan Thrall, an American journalist and former director of the Arab-Israeli project at the International Crisis Group, has found himself lodged anxiously between worry for his wife and daughters at home in Jerusalem, and awareness that, as the tour to promote his new… Read More ‘It’s lonely being a Jewish critic of Israel’ – Nathan Thrall on his book about a Palestinian father’s tragedy

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Orwellian nightmares: What I learned about today’s rage culture from rewriting 1984

At the time I was reimagining this scene, I spent much of my day on Twitter. It was early 2021, and everyone there was chronically angry. People communicated by jeering, trading insults, hectoring, flinging accusations… It was like being in an abusive relationship with everyone in the world. Sandra Newman A few years ago, I… Read More Orwellian nightmares: What I learned about today’s rage culture from rewriting 1984

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