www.imitatio.org
Sometimes the greatest ideas appear to be simple ones. The famed critic and cultural theorist René Girard gave the world a set of deceptively simple ideas that have changed the way we think...
Global Markets, Anonymous Victims
Talking to Mark Anspach
The UNESCO Courier
In our great metropolises, hundreds of homeless people die each year. We don't even know their names. The market economy has not rid us of sacrifice. And yet, its rationality was supposed to distance us from ritual violence...
When Cheerleading Becomes a Hunger Game
www.houseofflout.com
Look at Emily. Isn’t she the picture of perfection? There’s no sexier girl on the high school cheer squad. The boys like her just the way she is. But not Coach. She thinks the poor girl is fat...
www.bookhaven.stanford.edu
The Libyans didn't get it.
With everyone agreeing Qaddafi was a monster, the outcry over the way he died caught the rebels by surprise...