What do you believe? Why do you believe it? Have your beliefs changed over time?
9/11 Experiments
Like most, I had beliefs in childhood that changed as I learned new information, such as my belief in...
Do you smirk when you hear someone question the official stories of Orlando, San Bernardino, Paris or Nice? Do you feel superior to 2,500 architects and engineers, to firefighters, commercial and military pilots, physicists...
Originally published at The Guardian by Donna Marsh O'Connor on 5/20/16
There is a bungee cord tied around my waist, and it tethers me to Ground Zero. The bungee lets me move away, to live...
Originally published at The Nation by Tom Englehardt on 9/8/15
Fourteen years later and do you even believe it? Did we actually live it? Are we still living it? And how improbable is that?
Fourteen years...
There’s an ill will blowing across the country. The economy is tanking. The people are directionless, and politics provides no answer. And like former regimes, the militarized police have stepped up to provide a...
Louise Richardson, the incoming vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, has attracted controversy for suggesting the US overreacted to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
Richardson is a well-respected expert on terrorism studies and...
