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Pork-barrel politics hurt war on terror

It is easy for governments to spend money. Spending it effectively is harder. That was apparent Monday when Thomas Kean, the former governor of New Jersey who headed the Sept. 11 commission, went after homeland defense spending to date.

Sometimes, a parliament holds appeal

Despite a long common border, Minnesotans don't pay much attention to Canadian politics. We will pay little interest to the sudden � and, by U.S. standards, very short � election campaign that will take place there over next seven weeks.

Textbook Extends Economics

Josh Farley, a classically trained economist and assistant professor of Community Development and Applied Economics.

A Dialog about Anti-Semitism

Rabid anti-Semitism, coupled with inane and outlandish conspiracy theories of world dominion, is easy to counter and dispel. It is the more "reasoned", subtle, and stealthy variety that it pernicious.

ATATÜRK'S UNDERSTANDING AND PRACTICE OF SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE

Paper presented in Panel Discussion on "Atatürk's View of Popular Sovereignty and Current Turkish Political Reality", organized by ATATÜRK SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Being John Malkovich

A quintessential loser, an out-of-job puppeteer, is hired by a firm, whose offices are ensconced in a half floor (literally. The ceiling is about a metre high, reminiscent of Taniel's hallucinatory Alice in Wonderland illustrations).

Can Beijing reign in the white-hot Chinese economy?

For those of us who have been steadfast in our optimism on China, the blistering first-quarter GDP report throws down the gauntlet.

Collective Narcissism

"It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness"

Dreamcatcher - The Myth of Destructibility

In the movie "Dreamcatcher", four childhood friends, exposed to an alien, disguised as a retarded child, develop psychic powers. Years later they reunite only to confront a vicious extraterrestrial life-form.

Dreams of Reality The View, and the Point of View

A Dialogue about Art Between: Roberto Calvo Macias and Dr. Sam Vaknin

Hitler - The Inverted Saint

Hitler and Nazism are often portrayed as an apocalyptic and seismic break with European history. Yet the truth is that they were the culmination and reification of European (and American) history in the 19th century.

Iraq set to slash food rations

Iraq is set to halve essential items covered by rations and subsidies because of insufficient funds and spiralling inflation, in a further threat to an already deteriorating ration system.

Küreselleşme, Eğitimsel Yoksunluk ve Yetişkin Eğitimi

Küreselleşme kavramı, üzerinde ortak bir görüş oluşturulamamasına karşın, başta bilişim ve ekonomi olmak üzere diğer sosyal alanlarda da derin etkileri görülen ve etkisi olduğu her alanda değişimi simgeleyen bir kavramdır.

Legalizing Crime

"Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people." Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher

Look at a country's political culture to get a grip on economic changes

When countries are unable to find solutions to persistent economic problems, it’s usually a symptom of an underlying political problem. Recent events in Brazil and Japan bear this out.

Mikhail Bakunin

Three of the most notable types of the revolutionistic innovators of this century are Mazzini (1808--1872), Proudhon (1809--1865), and Bakunin (1814--1876).

Narcissists in Positions of Authority

"He knows not how to rule a kingdom, that cannot manage a province; nor can he wield a province, that cannot order a city; nor he order a city, that knows not how to regulate a village; nor he a village, that cannot guide a family; nor can that man govern well a family that knows not how to govern himself; neither can any govern himself unless his reason be lord, will and appetite her vassals; nor can reason rule unless herself be ruled by God, and be obedient to Him."

Narcissists, Group Behavior, and Terrorism

All of us have narcissistic TRAITS. Some of us even develop a narcissistic PERSONALITY, or a narcissistic STYLE. Moreover, narcissism is a SPECTRUM of behaviors - from the healthy to the utterly pathological (a condition known as the Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or NPD).

Pros and cons of party membership

As the leaders of the 73 million-strong Chinese Communist Party hold their five-yearly congress, the BBC's Jill McGivering assesses attitudes in Hubei Province to the big question: to join or not to join?

Seahaven: A Moral Deliberation

"The Truman Show" is a profoundly disturbing movie. On the surface, it deals with the worn out issue of the intermingling of life and the media.

Terrorism as a Psychodynamic Phenomenon

A Case of Group Psychopathology,Dialog between: Michael Galak and Sam Vaknin.

The American Hostel

The movie "Hostel" (2005) is a potent depiction of gore and graphic horror. More subtly, it is also a counterfactual and jingoistic political allegory for the post 9-11 age.

The Argument for Torture

The problem of the "ticking bomb" - rediscovered after September 11 by Alan Dershowitz, a renowned criminal defense lawyer in the United States - is old hat.

The Cultural Narcissist Lasch in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

"The new narcissist is haunted not by guilt but by anxiety. He seeks not to inflict his own certainties on others but to find a meaning in life. Liberated from the superstitions of the past, he doubts even the reality of his own existence.

The Encroachment of the Public

As Aristotle and John Stuart Mill observed, the private sphere sets limits, both normative and empirical, to the rights, powers, and obligations of others.

The Fourth Law (of Robotics) Part I: The Simple Problems

The movie "I, Robot" is a muddled affair. It relies on shoddy pseudo-science and a general sense of unease that artificial (non-carbon based) intelligent life forms seem to provoke in us.

The Individual in Society

The words freedom and liberty signified for the most eminent representatives of mankind one of the most precious and desirable goods.

The Matrix

It is easy to confuse the concepts of "virtual reality" and a "computerized model of reality (simulation)".

The problem of Asia's disappearing women

Asia is the only continent where men outnumber women – and the problem is predicted to get worse, with potentially serious social consequences. What’s going on?

The Ruckus Society

The Ruckus Society provides environmental, human rights, and social justice organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals.

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