Pentagon

October 10, 2013

America’s police are looking more and more like the military | Michael Shank and Elizabeth Beavers | Comment is free | theguardian.com

America\’s streets are looking more and more like a war zone. Last week, in a small county in upstate New York with a population of roughly 120,000 people, county legislators approved the receipt of a 20-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected… Continue reading
May 28, 2013

Controlling for Cosmopolis

Jose Ortega y Gasset points out that the term “emperor’ means “the one who goes to where the border begins”. The Latin word is related to the Spanish verb empezar (to begin). An Imperator was a general who kept whole the… Continue reading