Much like the debate around being a glass half full or half empty person, there is split opinion over whether human nature is generally good or bad. Young people are more likely to view human nature as self-serving, unsympathetic, and narrow minded than older...
One reason I object to Israel's behavior is that it brings anti-Semitic creeps out of the woodwork. Thanks a lot, Israel.
The progress of civilization has meant the reduction of employment, not its increase. It is because we have become increasingly wealthy as a nation that we have been able to virtually eliminate child labor, to remove the necessity of work for many of the aged and to...
While I was sleeping, did "our representatives" in the U.S. Senate ratify an alliance treaty with Israel, complete with a NATO-style Article 5, obligating us to defend Israel if attacked?
Haaretz has more details on IDF drone strikes that killed seven international aid workers on Monday night. The victims included two US-Canadian dual-national Palestinians and five citizens of Australia, Poland and the UK. (Edit: World Central Kitchen – the NGO that...
The Western commentariat has spilled much ink and expended considerable effort attempting to explain our era of political malaise, particularly the disruptions underway within the Republican Party and the American Right. It is into that maelstrom that Jacob Heilbrunn...
A number of foreign nationals were among seven aid workers killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip, including a dual US-Canadian citizen and others hailing from Britain, Australia and Poland
Israel identifies itself as the Jewish state and claims to represent "the Jewish people" everywhere, not only Jewish Israelis. Thus Israel's atrocious treatment of the Muslim and Christian Palestinians at least tacitly encourages the anti-Semites, who are eager to...
My old friend Michael Malice just shared an AP headline on Twitter that read: "Who wouldn't like prices to start falling? Careful what you wish for, economists say." Malice's commentary: "The corporate press is the enemy of the people." He's right, of course. If they...
They do things like this because they think it's hilarious fun to slaughter and starve innocent people.
