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V | VIOLENCE II
Not only does violence have the capacity to become normative, we also seem to wholly lose our capacity for moral judgement in its wake....
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V | VIOLENCE
Talking of violence in a time of war can distort rather than clarify our comprehension of it.On the one hand are the visible and...
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I | IDENTITY & INDIFFERENCE
If there are twin pylons on which our democratic deformities today seem to stand, they are identity and indifference. Democracies wage war in the...
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M | MAJORITY & MASTERY
At the heart of the modern democratic contract is the principle — and the faith — that the majority will decide for everyone. But...
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N | NEGLECT & NEODEMOCRACY
How do ordinary citizens become the foot soldiers, the automatons, the purveyors of evil? How does barbaric cruelty become a civic norm? In her...
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L | LAW & LIBERALISM
“At the heart of law is not justice but the will to punish. And it is when this will to punish becomes a pervasive...