How to really be an ‘Everlasting GOP-stopper’ Mina Shah November 1, 2015 2 Comments Usually, it’s easy for me as a radical leftist (I know, you’re all shocked to finally discover where my political leanings lie) to look at the Republican Party and its frontrunners of this... Read More »
Thanks, Facebook, but you’ll probably hurt more than you’ll help Mina Shah October 26, 2015 1 Comment According to an article published a few weeks ago, Facebook is about to increase internet connectivity around the world by partnering with a French satellite company, Eutelsat, to provide broadband... Read More »
Enough of Shakespeare Mina Shah October 18, 2015 16 Comments Oppression fundamentally changes all social institutions eliminates all prospects of a “universal human experience.” It is fundamentally impossible for two people to interact without histories of... Read More »
An argument for non-intervention Mina Shah October 12, 2015 0 Comments Clearly, we don’t do too well when we intervene militarily in the affairs of other countries unprompted, with pretty much the worst track record of military interventions one could imagine. And... Read More »
Police department reforms, but in wrong direction Mina Shah October 5, 2015 0 Comments According to The New York Times, the police department in Kansas City, Missouri is in the process of implementing a new program. Good, right, since we have seen, especially over the past year, that... Read More »
A responsibility to pursue information actively Mina Shah September 28, 2015 0 Comments Two weeks ago, an outbreak of measles started in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Over 400 people have died, and more than 23,000 are infected. That’s a lot of... Read More »
Europe’s ‘migrant crisis’ Mina Shah September 20, 2015 4 Comments The attention (or rather, lack thereof) that the media has given people fleeing countries for various reasons (political, economic, and social), trying to come to Europe has been largely nonexistent... Read More »
The case against force feeding Mina Shah September 16, 2015 1 Comment His situation, especially in the context of a relatively new Israeli law that allows force feeding hunger-strikers, raises lots of questions about whether there are situations in which state forces... Read More »
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