“Vain is the word of a philosopher, by which no mortal suffering is healed. Just as medicine confers no benefit if it does not drive away bodily disease, so is philosophy useless if it does not drive away the suffering of the mind”. (from “The Essential Epicurus”, trans. by Eugene O’Connor, Great Books in Philosophy …
Kruschev was nuts but he was prescient when he said, “We will defeat you from within”. (John Chappell) Is there anyone out there who agrees? If so, why?
In England less than 1% of the population – including aristocrats, the royal family and wealthy investors, owns about half the land. Putting it another way, with a population of about 56 million, half the country belongs to just 25,000 landowners, some of them corporations. This reflects the chronic inequality of Britain, in contrast to …
A recent study suggests that we quickly get used to unusual weather, which has troubling implications for our ability to motivate people to support measures that will protect us from global climate change. The study measured the literal remarkability of different temperatures by seeing how much comment they generated on Twitter. Hot and cold conditions …
The U.S Attorney general, William Barr has excused the wild behavior of the President by explaining, without a hint of humour or irony, that the President gets “emotional”. Wow! One of the frequent Republican accusations against women in charge of anything is that they are too “emotional” to be able to run whole countries or …
