In the summer of 2014, my grandma began digging into the old pile of long-forgotten photographs she hoarded […]
Category Archive: human rights
As someone who studies global migration for a living, it has been hard to choose where to begin […]
In the early 1980s, the philosopher Paul Oskar Kristeller looked up “creativity” in the dictionary. He groused that […]
The rise of Donald Trump has induced a collective shudder through much of America. For many, the GOP […]
Eavesdropping, censorship, recording, and surveillance are weapons of power. The technology of listening in on, ordering, transmitting, and […]
On August 23 the Wall Street Journal reported that National Security Agency (NSA) analysts abused their extraordinary power to […]
“All that is very well,” replied Candide, “but let us cultivate our garden.” — François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), Candide: […]
America’s partisan political wars have come to North Carolina, as big-money donors have helped bring the most ideologically […]