“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been
Psychiatry
“Consider the shrink. Many mental problems originate not in diseases of the brain but in deficiencies of society. The arduousness of living with unfulfilling work, financial insecurity, arbitrary bosses, lack of solidarity and insufficient personal power, together with the anguish
Socialism as saintliness
As part of my ongoing efforts to understand humans, I recently read William James’ “The Varieties of Religious Experience”. (Now, if only there were a book “The Varieties of Capitalist Experience”!) As you might expect, I do not share James’
An appropriate orientation
“implacable to the whole system of official values: the ignobility of fashionable life; the infamies of empire; the spuriousness of the church, the vain conceit of the professions; the meannesses and cruelties that go with great success; and every other
Rice references in recently released reports
This is reference material. I have gone through the two reports “OLC Opinions on the CIA Detention and Interrogation Program” , the timeline released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on April 22,http://intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs/olcopinion.pdf and “Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in
On dinner parties and war criminals
“Oh, your prudery; oh, your squeamish respectability; all the abominations are allowed to *happen*, but no one may mention them. Delicate women must not know anything or say anything about blood and filth… There is nothing indecent about death and
Favourite political axiom ever
“Maybe one of the principles around which work should be organized is: does it leave people enough time and energy to go home and have sex?” — Cynthia Peters, “The Art (and Serendipity) of Kinship”
Exiles on an inhospitable shore
“It seems to me that our attitude on religious subjects is one which we ought as far as possible to preach, and which is not the same as that of any of the well-known opponents of Christianity. There is the