TED 2008: Zimbardo on Abu Ghraib

A couple of weeks ago I read David Griffith’s ‘A Good War is Hard to Find,’ a meditation about Abu Ghraib, violence, and morality in American culture. It was a wonderfully reflective book, deserving of another read; but neither it nor the passage of several years since the scandal broke quite prepared me for the [...]

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A Good War is Hard to Find

Over the weekend I finished David Griffith’s A Good War is Hard to Find , a non-fiction book - an extended essay, really - on the peculiarly paradoxical moral sensibilities we Americans have come to cultivate toward violence. The point of departure for the book, its key moral dilemma, is framed by the photos that [...]

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TC Noose Hanging, Cont’d

No significant updates in the noose-hanging case at Teachers College. News vans remain parked outside, and students and faculty alike continue to talk about it in classes and hallways.
Here’s a brief New York Times article about Madonna Constantine, the professor who found the noose on her door.
The two most commonly-expressed reactions I’ve heard have [...]

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Global Warming 4: The Future, in our Hands?

The President of Iran is due to speak later this afternoon at Columbia University, just a few blocks away from where I study and work. I’ll have to keep this in mind and take an alternate route to campus for class tomorrow afternoon, in order to avoid the usual subway delays. On the one hand, [...]

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Wife Power

All I can say is read this great story, and analysis, here.
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