"In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers an analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs - even when these beliefs inspire the worst of human atrocities. Har…
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The Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a stretch of time in America, roughly between 1968 and 1975, when there was on average more than one significant terrorist…
The Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a stretch of time in America, roughly between 1968 and 1975, when there was on average more than one significant terrorist…
Le decapitazioni dei prigionieri, mostrate in video professionali che fanno il giro del mondo in pochi minuti. La pulizia etnico-religiosa nelle zone occupate dell'Iraq, con milioni di profughi sciiti, cristiani, yazidi. La proclamazione di un califfato, un ideale vecchio di sec…
After 9/11/2001, gendered narratives of humiliation and revenge proliferated in the U.S. national imaginary throughout the war and terror and they have endured in its aftermath. Through exmaining practices of torture, extra-judicial assassination, and first person accounts of so…
Exclusion from refugee status for the suspected commission of serious crimes is a topic fraught with political and legal controversy. This is an area which sees the intersection of refugee law with international criminal and humanitarian law and, increasingly, measures taken in …
E. Ann Kaplan explores the relationship between the impact of trauma on individuals and on entire cultures and nations. Arguing that humans possess a need to draw meaning from personal experience and to communicate what happens to others, she examines the forms that are used to …
