The Darker Side of Prohibition
...be added to grain alcohol to prevent its being all drunk away and thereby denied to legitimate industry and business.” Rather, Norris blames the system itself: a moral philosophy of...
What is Kwanzaa?
...Los Angeles, focusing on the adoption of Swahili and “a philosophy that elaborated black nationalism more in cultural than political terms.” By fusing Black Nationalism, pan-Africanism, and anti-capitalist sentiments, and...
When San Diego Hired a Rainmaker a Century Ago, It Poured
...Espy, “the leading meteorologist of his day” according to Fleming. In his 1841 book The Philosophy of Storms, Espy claimed that by moving humid air currents upward into the cooler...
It Turns Out Ordinary Life is Full of Poetry (Metaphorically Speaking)
...what we mean, directly, and eschew the abstract, the confusing, the poet’s philosophy of skirting around the edges of plain-spoken truth. So we may often think of metaphor as being...
When Actions Are Words
...people are now married where a second before they were footloose and fancy-free. Inconceivable, you say? Indeed, in an odd pairing between philosophy and pop culture, it’s famously demonstrated as...
Are Regulations Killing the Small Community Bank in America?
...was more than just the esoteric financial products of the multi-billion-dollar banks that caused the problem, according to Hultberg. It was their entire philosophy of constant growth and the risk...
How the Black Panther Party Inspired the Aborigines
...Americans. Black Power philosophy was adopted and mobilized for the Australian context, but there were of course differences (Aborigines made up only 1% of the Australian population). Calls for violent...
Public Policy at the Limits of Science
...research scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and Kevin C. Elliott, an associate professor at Michigan State University, who studies the philosophy of science and practical ethics....
“Victim Culture” and Victim Blaming
...context of racial politics) and Newt Gingrich (in arguing for the dismantling of welfare programs). Ultimately, the AVF philosophy—like other critiques of “victim culture” then and now—relied on an individualistic...
“Let the Traumatic Image Haunt Us”
Susan Sontag and the Photographs of the European Refugee Crisis “This morning’s collection contains the photograph of what might be a man’s body, or a woman’s; it is so mutilated...