USA: Why the Shooter Is Seen as a Hero
A 26-Year-Old Italian-American, Luigi Mangione, Suspected of Killing Insurance CEO Brian Thompson
SOCIETY
Window or Delusion? The Duality of Social Media and the Search for Balance
Social media blamed for youth violence? It's not the whole story. This article argues individual responsibility and lack of real-life connection play bigger roles. Learn more about the true culprits and how…
Tarana Burke: The Fierce Advocate Behind the #MeToo Movement
In the era of social media activism, few movements have left as profound an impact as the #MeToo movement. While it gained global recognition in the late 2010s, many may not be…
On Compassion
"Compassion is not a character trait like a sunny disposition. It must be learned, and it is learned by having adversity at our windows. . ."
James Baldwin: Dark Days
James Baldwin, the writer who has forged passion into eloquence for black people since 1948, at his house in the south of France. At fifty-six, he sees no progress in black education…
TELEVANGELISTS: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER [FULL TRANSCRIPT]
John Oliver demonstrates that scamming people is legal in the USA as long as you pretend it's a church.
PUBLIC SHAMING: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER [FULL TRANSCRIPT]
John Oliver talks about the Christchurch mosque shootings, Brexit, and the power of public shaming, good and bad. With an interview with Monica Lewinsky.
NEW RULE: THE GUARDIANS OF GOTCHA | REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER [TRANSCRIPT]
Bill Maher calls for an end to the shaming and canceling of people whose heart is in the right place on race issues, but don’t get it exactly right on the first…
SUSAN SONTAG: ILLNESS AS METAPHOR
Two essays by Susan Sontag are devoted to an analysis of myths surrounding paradigmatic diseases of modern times and metaphors that turn physical illnesses into a moral matter and lead to public…
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE ANCIENT AND HARMONIOUS WAY OF LIFE OF LADAKH
The Ladakhis’ attitude to life—and death—seems to be based on an intuitive understanding of impermanence and a consequent lack of attachment. Rather than clinging to an idea of how things should be,…
UPTON SINCLAIR: THE JUNGLE – ESSAY BY RONALD GOTTESMAN
As Ronald Gottesman points out in this discerning introduction, Upton Sinclair was a passionate believer in the redemption of mankind through social reform. His expose of the interlocking corruption in American corporate…
How Veganism Became Mainstream
True, vegetarianism has been growing for many years, but did anyone foresee its most extreme variant rapidly ‘crossing the chasm’ to go from an oddball niche to a standard lifestyle choice?
Hannah Arendt: Society and Culture
Hannah Arendt warns that mass culture increasingly utilizes the classics and other genuine works of art, transformed and made digestible, for entertainment. Since the appetites of the entertainment industries are insatiable, they…
La folla, cos’è? – di Pier Paolo Pasolini
Avendo fatto in questi giorni (a Zafferana, in Sicilia, c'era un'atmosfera da linciaggio) esperienza della folla, mi è stato naturale rispondere subito a una lettera, firmata da Massimo Baldini, che mi pone…
New Rule: The Fudge Report | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher calls on Americans to take control of their health and address the growing obesity epidemic.
Pier Paolo Pasolini on Abortion
Who is in favour of abortion? No one evidently. One would have to be mad to be in favour of abortion. The problem is not to be for or against abortion but…
New Rule: Armed and Lonely | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) – Transcript
In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher addresses America's growing loneliness crisis and its link to mass shootings.
Abortion: Is It Possible To Be Both “Pro-Life” And “Pro-Choice”? – by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Is it wrong to abort a pregnancy? Always? Sometimes? Never? How do we decide? We wrote this article to understand better what the contending views are and to see if we ourselves…
Can Europe survive the new wave of populism? – Bernard Henri-Lévy with Douglas Murray (2017) – Full Transcript
Bernard-Henri Levy and Douglas Murray debate 'populism' in 2017
Slavoj Žižek: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012) – Traduzione italiana
L'ideologia è così radicata nella società che ha influenzato i nostri sogni. Se vogliamo cambiare la nostra realtà, dobbiamo prima cambiare i nostri sogni. Applicando la teoria psicoanalitica all'interpretazione cinematografica, Slavoj Zizek…
Slavoj Žižek: Political Correctness is a More Dangerous Form of Totalitarianism [Transcript]
The famed philosopher and social critic Slavoj Žižek describes political correctness as a tacit form of totalitarianism, an act of coercion built upon the premise that "I know better than you what…
Documentaries people don’t dare to watch: Land of Hope and Glory (2017)
"Land of Hope and Glory" is a documentary by 'Earthling' Ed Winters, exposing the myth that the UK is an exception to the rule of cruelty in animal agriculture.
Welcome to this World
A unique perspective on what Christianity teaches to our youngest and most impressionable.
Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds: A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange is a futuristic warning against both mindless violence and the mechanical reconditioning that is often proposed as society’s solution to its ills. It offers a horrifying view of a…
Richard Dawkins: The Enemies Of Reason (2007) – Full Transcript
The Enemies of Reason is a two-part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, in which he seeks to expose "those areas of belief that exist without scientific proof,…
The Root of All Evil? (2006) – Trascrizione italiana
The Root of All Evil?, poi intitolato The God Delusion, è un documentario televisivo scritto e presentato da Richard Dawkins nel quale sostiene che l'umanità starebbe meglio senza religione o credo in…
Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion: The case of Edgardo Mortara – by Richard Dawkins
The nineteenth-century human tragedy of Edgardo Mortara sheds a pitiless light on present-day religious attitudes to children.
Root of All Evil? (2006) – Full Transcript
In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as 'a process of non-thinking called faith'. He describes his astonishment that, at the start of the 21st century,…
Against Political Correctness – by Stephen Fry
Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and British actor and activist Stephen Fry take on American blogger Michelle Goldberg and American political commentator and academic Michael Eric Dyson in a fiery debate on political…
Seth Andrews: Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot – Full Transcript
Seth Andrews gave this speech June 3, 2017 in Toronto at the Imagine 7 conference. It's a humorous (and perhaps therapeutic) romp through Seth's religious past...and the often bizarre words and attitudes…