In fairy tales, family members are murderers while animals are saviors. These doses of amorality and anarchy are desperately needed.why we need fairy tales and realities of cold rivers now more than ever...
Fairy tales are capable of depicting the hardest challenges we face as human beings The fairy tales validate our own fears...
The Truth about free will: does it actually exist?
Listen closely to two decades of The New York Times’s nonfiction best-seller list and you will hear a shrill cry for help from the American people... ouch
Philosophy Bites has compiled the answers philosophers have given to the question, “Who is the most impressive philosopher you’ve ever met?”
Throughout the debate, no one (not even Marat or Robespierre) took the truly revolutionary position of suggesting venal
offices might be illegitimate privileges that could be cancelled without
payment.
This book
is interesting throughout for its treatment of fiscal and monetary
issues during the time of the French Revolution. It is not geared
toward current macroeconomic debates, but arguably that liberates it to
be more interesting on the historical side. The author is Rebecca L.
Spang, of The Invention of the Restaurant fame.
Taken together, one appealing ‘pop-psychology’ interpretation of these
results would be that being excessively honest with ourselves (‘faking
bad’ at self-deception) is our least indulged in pursuit while giving
out the best possible image of ourselves to other (‘faking good’ at
impression-management) is a behaviour with which we are much more
familiar and practised Self
‘Some Sort of Hell': How One of the Wealthiest Cities in America Treats Its Homeless Alternet
Exclusive: U.S. minimum wage hikes to affect 1,400-plus Walmart stores
Reuters. Because the minimum wage went up, not out of the goodness of
Walmart’s corporate heart, as the headline does not make clear.
Not his finest hour: The dark side of Winston Churchill Independent
Ways to Avoid Email Tracking New York Time
It’s a Wonderful Life, Comrade Truthout
Spectacular real virgin births BBC
Mary’s Immaculate Deception Counterpunch
Unexpected Life Found In The Ocean’s Deepest Trench NPR
Behind the Daily Paywall: The Site that Pays You to Read Pirated Articles Vice