Category Archives: Human rights

Madmen, monsters, gods and hero

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Naomi

Reading Edith Hamilton‘s Mythology is an exercise of one’s horror muscles. In ancient mythology, awful things happen to moderately good people, except there are no purely good people. Greek mythology has plenty of heroes, each one of whom makes a … Continue reading →

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Re Putin, exquisite subtlety in a NYT editorial

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Naomi

The Times editorial board today, in their Sunday Review editorial which summarizes and analyzes Putin’s assault on Ukraine, “‘I Want Peace.’ Zelensky’s Heroic Resistance Is an Example for the World,” displayed in one paragraph why I love the Times. Really, … Continue reading →

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We are at war. Six of them

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Naomi

For a while now, I’ve realized we have been living under a number of wars, one piled on top of the other. So it’s not shocking that to many people everything seems awful, end-of-the-world kind of awful. Deadly and doomed. … Continue reading →

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