Sublime

The New York Times typified the obituaries: “Greatness became him, and was a condition of his errand here. Whatever he had done, it had been greatly done. He trusted democracy perhaps more than it trusts itself. He believed in its economic destiny. Giving much, he received much. We salute the memory of a great American.”

John Dodson got the same message when he, too, became a government whistleblower in 2011. “You’re, in a sense, drowning where you can’t seem to find the surface,” Dodson tells me of the massive smear campaign he withstood. “It’s not just drowning; you’re trapped in this cube of water and you don’t know which way is up, which way to get out.” Dodson

What’s really disgusting about Taxi Driver is not the multifaced loner but the endless propaganda about the magic of guns.

Barry haïssait la violence des armes à feu, mais avait l’impression que c’était le prix à payer pour vivre en Amérique. Il y avait une chance – infime mais pas insignifiante, la « règle des trois sigmas », comme diraient les quants au bureau – qu’en vivant dans ce pays, quelqu’un vous abatte, vous ou votre famille. Au Japon il y avait les trembleme

Locke’s breakthrough — unimagined even by Christian thinkers as formidable as Thomas Aquinas — was to combine the classical view of natural law with the concept of inalienable rights. In his Two Treatises of Government (1689), Locke identified these rights as “life, liberty, and property.” He drew from the Scriptures, as well as from Cicero, to arg

In fact, in recent years police violence has appeared to be spinning out of control. Killings by police officers have nearly tripled since 2013 and now rank among the highest in the world. The number of police killings rose from 2,212 in 2013 to 6,220 in 2018. By comparison, police officers in the United States killed 1,146 people in 2019. The numb