Oh the guilty little pleasure I take from pieces of writing bashing contemporary child rearing… ..smug little chuckle
” Despite all the effort that has been put into shaping these kids, things, somehow, don’t seem quite to have worked out. Who would have thought that so much love in the home would result in such far [...]

A.J. Jacobs talks about his book “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”:

From the offical website the most unexpectedly wise and life-enhancing rules:
Keep the sabbath. As a workaholic (I check my emails in the middle of movies), I learned the beauty of an enforced [...]

“The debasement of the nation’s speech is evident in virtually everything broadcast and podcast on radio, television, and the Internet. In this true, all-encompassing public square, homogenized language and homogenized thought reinforce each other in circular fashion. As George Orwell noted in 1946, “A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, [...]

A documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, a linguist, intellectual, and political activist. Created by two Canadian independent filmmakers, it expands on the ideas of Chomsky’s earlier book, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which he co-wrote with Edward S. Herman.
The film presents and illustrates Chomsky’s [...]

This unimaginable evil is driven by the belief (in some areas of the country) that the body parts of people with albinism have magical powers capable of bringing riches if used in potions produced by local witchdoctors. In the last year official reports indicate that 26 persons with albinism have been brutally murdered and their [...]

“People are always personally accountable for their behavior. If they kill, they are accountable. However, what I’m saying is that if the killing can be shown to be a product of the influence of a powerful situation within a powerful system, then it’s as if they are experiencing diminished capacity and [...]

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“Orwell’s “1984″ warning about a dictatorial future yields quotes that director, co-writer (with Tom Blackburn) and producer Robert Kane Pappas has used as a takeoff point for his film “Orwell Rolls in His Grave,” an indictment of the current state of the news media, with proof offered that matters are getting worse under ever-narrowing [...]

Donáth Ferenc: A társadalomtörténeti tudat és a személyes emlékek szembeállítása a kincstári történetírás velejárója. Ilyen volt a rendszerváltás előtt ellenforradalmazás – a most Havas Szófia által vallott álláspont – és ilyen ma Wittner Mária törekvése, aki mindenkit a Sátán oldalára sorol, aki nem ért vele egyet. De méltánytalanság egy kalap alá venni a két megnyilvánulást: [...]