I read James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time over the weekend and found it really powerful. I had wanted to read it for a while and have heard many people compare Te-Nehisi Coates’ Between…
Tag: History
Quick Review – Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas
I recently read David Cortright’s Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas as part of the Peace Studies PhD program I am currently in. I had not heard of the book prior, but it…
Quick Review: Lincoln (The Movie)
After my review yesterday on the book Lincoln’s Melancholy and mentioning that I had read that prior to seeing the movie, I wanted to share some of my reflections from my experience…
Do You Have Room to Doubt?
I’ve been reading Douglas Starr’s The Killer of Little Shepherds which documents the origins of forensic science alongside the story of how the French apprehended and successfully prosecuted serial killer Joseph Vachay…
The Ethics of Empathy – Pt. 2 (Guest Post)
I’m hijacking a comment to yesterday’s post on the dynamics of how the U.S. delegation should enter into the victim’s sufferings in Hiroshima on the 65th anniversary of the nuclear attacks. My…
Ethics of Empathy – After the Fact
I read this article a week ago or so and it’s been coming to mind pretty much every day. It covers basically a U.S. delegation to Hiroshima on the 65th anniversary of…