Inside the bully economy – Bullying – Salon.com
According to Jessie Klein, the author of the new book “The Bully Society,” it’s a problem that’s only getting worse. In her excellent examination of the school bullying epidemic, Klein, an assistant...
View ArticleThe Anarchist Soccer Mom: Thinking the Unthinkable
is this the kind of mental illness that leads to murder? This post is by a woman whose son is kind, sweet, and brilliant most of the time. But when he loses control, he’s scary violent. And she can’t...
View ArticleThe Newtown Tragedy and the Emperor’s New Clothes
We’ll get to that fairly tale in a minute, for it embodies a deep truth about living in society. But let’s first think about guns. That gun ownership has been such a controversial issue in American...
View ArticleBreaking Bad: Breaking Men from the Inside
By now zillions of atoms have be scattered on the internet to the end of explicating Breaking Bad. I’ve read some of that, but not much. Breaking Bad‘s Moral Lesson to Civilians, by Alex Horton, is the...
View ArticleThe Nation State as an Agent of War
Tyler Cowen has a recent post consisting of the abstract to a working paper by Alberto Alesina, Bryony Reich, Alessandro Riboni, “Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars”. Here’s that abstract: The...
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