Discourse: communication in speech or writing; a speech or piece of writing about a particular, usually serious, subject; spoken or written discussion – from the Cambridge Dictionary, online. Sermon: ...
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides in Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition a timely overview of America's enduring and fraught ...
Europe’s civilizing mission is humanitarian - its duty to intervene to spread the good word, protecting the oppressed against local tyrants. The conditions by which this protection is granted are ...
Michael Sierra-Arévalo does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
Slate's Jacob Weisberg has uncovered and published a trove of scribbled notes now-presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wrote for himself around 1994, leading up to his election as Speaker of the House ...
George W. Bush’s bold 2007 proclamation that “This government does not torture people,” would have certainly come as news to Abdal Rahim al-Nashiri, an Al Qaeda operative who was tortured under the ...
The aim of this article is to examine the claim that we are now living in a post-race society where racial equality has been achieved and anti-discrimination measures ...