Clash of civilizations

So, structural violence to me, when I try to put it in my classes really simply, so, I tell folks there is physical violence, so, I look at school violence in schools, and so, hitting and saying...

Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced a between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while...

The Future of the Arab Spring Can democracy overcome cultural differences? There are different opinions on what role democracy plays in the development of history There are different opinions on what...

[Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Jewish, Great Britain] [Forgiveness and the Jewish Tradition] In Judaism, forgiveness is absolutely fundamental. It's the thing theme of our Holy of Holies of...

When I heard about the prize my first reaction was to wonder whether I was worthy. Then the weight of it slowly began to sink in. What stands out most clearly is who responded first. I got calls from...

I had a feeling about the boy Raiden when he first came to us. From the start, he and his young cohorts defied our traditions to befriend the creatures they summoned, crossing the Veil into the...

Hi, students. In class, we've been talking a lot about postcolonial theory, and the reason we've been thinking about postcolonial theory in this course is because it gives us an...

TV and Movie programming is fiction, it is not the real world but a celluloid or digital artificial depiction of the world from the mind of the creators of it. It has as much reality as a superman...

>>Paul Mason: It's January 2011 and the State Department gets the call, Hey, guys, you know what? Those people in -- those students in Cairo we have been teaching about...

Maidhc Ó Cathail on the tumultuous events in the Middle East, 2011 Excerpts from theuglytruth.podbean.com Edited by argonium79 Are these uprisings in the Middle East spontaneous events? I was...