Tag: Violences

I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine about former NFL wide receiver Josh Gordon. Gordon may best be remembered for having tremendous physical abilities (he once led the league in receiving yards in his second NFL season, good for 20th most yards in a season all-time), but also as some...

Why the Lewiston, Maine mass shooter escaped the state’s “yellow flag” laws, meant to keep weapons of death and destruction out of hands like his, is a question in search of answers. Eighteen people were murdered and thirteen more injured: the price for ignoring threats m...

The 1500s and 1600s in England and Europe were anything but gentle times. People were routinely burned at the stake for religious heresy, a practice that began in the twelfth century and continued through 1612. Torture was an official instrument of the English government until 1640. The famous Tower...

Fear is a powerful emotion. It’s one of our greatest motivators as a species; the fear of death, the fear of loss, the fear of losing control. People respond to fear in any number of different ways, whether by becoming defiant or by shutting down into silence. We might tremble, we might scr...