The April 2007 tragedy of 32 individuals’ falling victim to a mass murder committed by a psychotic student should call attention to the deplorable state of our nation’s care of the mentally ill. Unfortunately, the Virginia Tech tragedy has led to a misguided focus on the perpetrator’s individual psychology. Most commentary neglects the social issue of the criminalization of mental illness. Toda...

O u t of opposition to collectivism grew the celebration of the individual. Long before libertarians objected to totalitarianism in the name of individual rights, laissez faire conservatives challenged the collectivism that had been entailed in nationalism, Catholic and Anglican church doctrines, and secular pessimistic theories of human nature (theories that favored collective institutional an...

Celem artykułu jest analiza konserwatywnych aspektów myśli społeczno-wychowawczej Adama Skwarczyńskiego, czołowego ideologa pracy wychowawczej obozu piłsudczykowskiego. Jego dziełem organizacja podstaw wychowawczych i ideologicznych tego ugrupowania, podjął trud zbudowaniaideowych fundamentów wychowanianowego w Polsce człowieka. Wskazał, jak wielkie są granice człowieczeństwa, nieograniczona mo...

This paper looks at how vernacular practices associated with fringe web communities seem to have found their way into reactionary American politics in recent years. Combining concepts from political communication (Bennett and Segerberg 2013) assemblage theory (Samson 2020), the key elements of Capitol insurrection narrative initially emerged on 4chan as meme about a second civil war (called “th...

This paper uses a set of “natural experiments,” created by the passage of a U.S. Department of Transportation drug-testing mandate and 13 state testing laws, to examine the effects of testing truckers for illicit substances on highway safety. Since truckers do not bear the full costs of their driving and employers cannot contract on all aspects of their behavior, drug testing may be one means f...

Social media provides political news and information for both active duty military personnel and veterans. We analyze the subgroups of Twitter and Facebook users who spend time consuming junk news from websites that target US military personnel and veterans with conspiracy theories, misinformation, and other forms of junk news about military affairs and national security issues. (1) Over Twitte...

972 www.thelancet.com Vol 369 March 24, 2007 Ideally, policy responses to psychoactive drugs of misuse would take into account the variations in harm that each kind causes to users and the community. In today’s Lancet, David Nutt and colleagues show that the UK classification of psychoactive drugs into three categories of harm (A, B, and C) is only modestly correlated with expert ratings of the...

Recently a unified brain theory was proposed (Friston, 2010) attempting to explain action, perception, and learning (Friston, 2010). It is based on a predictive brain with Bayesian updating, and Andy Clark evaluates this approach in “Whatever Next? Predictive Brains, Situated Agents, and the Future of Cognitive Science.” If such a theory exists it should incorporate multiple theories applicable...

Social media provides political news and information for both active duty military personnel and veterans. We analyze the subgroups of Twitter and Facebook users who spend time consuming junk news from websites that target US military personnel and veterans with conspiracy theories, misinformation, and other forms of junk news about military affairs and national security issues. (1) Over Twitte...

My essay has several connected histories to unravel about the construction and use of new forms informational mediated control by elite groups secure political economic realities. It is part a longer project on history “the digital” as modality specific praxis control. “Prediction Machines” began an experiment in writing present with backward-directed glance historian” that unraveled over time ...