Monthly Archives: September 2010

How Americans’ Expectation of Perfect Protection Can Kill Their Empathy and Feed Racism

Although the “Mosque Controversy” is fading from daily headlines, in today’s blog, I move on to the next question in the politics of empathy: Why do so many Americans allow themselves to be driven again into a frenzy of fear … Continue reading

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How the “Mosque Controversy” is Linked to Ongoing War

When the Muslim community center controversy over its location near Ground Zero otherwise known as the Mosque controversy broke out, my first reaction was a powerful sense of familiarity, almost a feeling of déjà vu. Thinking yes, we’ve seen this … Continue reading

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Peace will elude us not because war is inevitable but because as long as peace projects, proposals and plans do not turn to the vital issue of remaking masculinity, we are bound to the ongoing war of aggressor states.  But … Continue reading

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WELCOME to Unmaking War, Remaking Men

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