Politics and its Discontents

In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, it seems that the world is about to embark on even greater military intervention in the Middle...

There is no question that here in the West, we like to treat death almost as an embarrassment; we sanitize it, hide it away in hospitals an...

This note from the Mound of Sound accompanied the post that follows: Some of the course material I’ve been going through lately got me thi...