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  • What Did Hannah Arendt Really Mean by the Banality of Evil?

    What Did Hannah Arendt Really Mean by the Banality of Evil?0

    Can one do evil without being evil? This was the puzzling question that the philosopher Hannah Arendt grappled with when she reported for The New Yorker in 1961 on the war crimes trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi operative responsible for organising the transportation of millions of Jews and others to various concentration camps in

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  • What Deep Throat Could Teach Us About Fake News

    What Deep Throat Could Teach Us About Fake News0

    Since the election, the reading public has been tortured with the cries from both right and the left about “fake news.” And even though Google just updated its fact-checking tools, the problem doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. But let’s face it. We could have prevented this. If reporters and readers alike stopped

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  • What David Bowie’s Childhood Can Teach Us About Madness

    What David Bowie’s Childhood Can Teach Us About Madness0

    We live in a crazy world which seems to be getting crazier by the minute. The reason is that the number of crazy people in the world is on the rise. Rates of suicide, mental illness, alienation, schizophrenia, loneliness, drug abuse and many forms of addiction are all seemingly out of control. Why are we

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  • What Da Vinci Can Teach Us about Education

    What Da Vinci Can Teach Us about Education0

    A new biography of Leonardo da Vinci has a lot to say about what it is to be a truly educated person. Biographer Walter Isaacson, who also wrote recent well-regarded biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Steve Jobs, hones in on the most important aspect of da Vinci: His love of knowledge for its own

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  • What Critics of ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Are Missing

    What Critics of ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Are Missing0

    Just type the word “cultural” into a search engine and you’re likely to find the phrase ”cultural appropriation” at or near the top. Whether it’s a social justice warrior engaging in a hostile confrontation with a kid over his dreadlocks, or it’s a rant about how Justin Timberlake has “appropriated” black culture with his music,

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  • What CNN’s Don Lemon Doesn’t Know About Humility

    What CNN’s Don Lemon Doesn’t Know About Humility0

    CNN news anchor, Don Lemon, needs to belittle those who don’t share his worldview. Recently Lemon guffawed hysterically as two panelists mocked Trump, Trump voters, and Southerners. Lemon was overcome with “joy” and felt no need to maintain even a semblance of objectivity as the belittlement of millions of Americans continued. CNN neither rebuked nor disciplined Lemon. Faced with

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