What are the attitudes of both groups? What are the implications for social justice and for the healing of past hurts? Nigel Pocock Perpetrators: As you read this, people are screaming in pain, and longing for death. A torturer exercises his instrumental, and possibly, sadistic, will on them. […]
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The Covid condition
I have a sore throat. I want to cough, but coughing could mean I have the virus. So, superstitiously, I stop myself. I figure that, if I really had it, then I wouldn’t be able to hold back. Steve Latham This is the crazy condition we’re in. Thinkers used […]
Poignant pictures of a noble life
This book, “Letter to Bruno Manser”, is a memorial to Bruno Manser and it begins with a photograph of the mountain that marks his last known location, before he vanished in 2000, and a letter: “Dear Bruno, if only you knew how many of your friends looked for you at […]
Exercise vs. isolation and covid-19
At this time, many people are living in social isolation or in quarantine to avoid spreading the new SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, and to stop the spread of the pandemic. But you don’t have to be still. Marnie Fiallo Gómez And although seclusion at home and hygienic […]
The communist imperative
There are lessons to learn from the current pandemic and one of them – the need for radical thinking, authority and discipline – underlies Žižek’s recent articles in the public media. They have been substantially rewritten for “A left that dares to speak its name”. Sean Sheehan He […]















