Tag: Social Theory

If Looks Could Kill Empires

“Seeing comes before words.”   “Seeing is a great deal more than believing these days.”   “During the first days of the NATO attack on Serbia in April 1999, I was watching a CNN live report ...

The Janus Face of Conscience

Throughout the summer of 1938, Paul Gruninger was in charge of policing a small section of the Swiss border. A captain in the canton of St. Gallen, his job was to prevent entry from Nazi-controlled ...