Education
-
The Power Of Belief | Emanuele Corso
Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust March 19, 2016 The philosopher Donald Davidson once pointed out that, “Truth is beautifully transparent compared to belief...." As human beings our vanity is that ...
Read more... -
Retrotopia: Lines of Separation | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerJan. 27, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 14th installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. ...
Read more... -
Retrotopia: Learning Lessons | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerJan. 13, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 13th installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. ...
Read more... -
An Open Letter to Young Muslims Everywhere: The Seed of Triumph in Every Adversity | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 30, 2015 When I was a little boy, I used to dream of being reborn outside the hardship of the Refugee Camp in Gaza -- in some other time and place ...
Read more... -
What’s In A Name | Emanuele Corso
Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Nov. 10, 2015 There is in our society a long tradition of calling certain things by names other than what they are, deliberately offsetting their true function and ...
Read more... -
The 99 Yarder -- A Brooklyn Story Circa 1970 | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust April 30, 2015 The skinny-legged wide receiver with 4.7 speed* (fast for a white guy in 1970) was running like "a thief from a grocery ...
Read more... -
Children And Society As Fair Game | Emanuele Corso
"Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pormal (i.e., Pownal) Cotton Mill. Vt." by Lewis Hine, 1912-13. "Girls in mill say she is ten years. She admitted to me she was twelve; that she started ...
Read more... -
A Ship of Fools | Emanuele Corso
Woodcut by an unknown artist. Illustration from the book Stultifera navis (Ship of Fools) by Sebastian Brant, published by Johann Bergmann in Basel in 1498. Credit: University of Houston Digital ...
Read more... -
The Politics of Insanity | Emanuele Corso
The Youth of Aristotle (1875) Charles Jean Marie Degeorge (1837-1888) Photo: ketrin1407/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust March 13, 2015 In the “Politics,” Aristotle says: “The ...
Read more... -
Secret History of My Geography Teacher, also Cofounder of Hamas | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust March 12, 2015 This is not my geography teacher, or, more accurately, it is not at all how I remember him. A series of APA images published by the ...
Read more... -
The Arab Intellectual is Resting, Not Dead | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust March 3, 2015 Whenever a new poem by Mahmoud Darwish was published in al-Quds newspaper, I rushed over to Abu Aymen’s newsstand that was located in the ...
Read more...
Page 28 of 32