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All of them have tales of pain and loss as grievous as any Muslim's, they say, but no one cares about their suffering. "The West says we are aggressors. We are just defending ourselves," says Mikerevic. He feels he has no choice but to stand and fight: he will...
To approach Auschwitz, one must begin by understanding its uniqueness. All the easy universalisms bow before this particular fact: Auschwitz was the apex of a campaign by one people, the Germans, to exterminate another, the Jews. They almost succeeded. They killed 6 million, 2 out of every 3. They annihilated...
This high-velocity onslaught of new ideas and technologies seemed to ratify older dreams of a perfectible life on earth, of an existence in which the shocks of nature had been tamed. But the unleashing of unparalleled progress was also accompanied by something quite different: a massive regression toward savagery...
If population keeps building at the current rate, the most ominous effect is that millions of life-forms will become extinct. Humans, no matter how well behaved, cannot help crowding out natural systems. A survey of 50 countries by environmental researcher Paul Harrison showed that habitat loss, the most important...
If the latter is true, however, we should cease imposing on ourselves moral duties that are the exact opposite of other life forms' guiding imperatives: instead of accepting our part in the evolutionary struggle like our brothers the insects, we mistakenly act as if we should exterminate ourselves (or at...