Results for “Human Dignity Institute”

CHARITY TILLEMANN DICK Charity Tillemann Dick is an American-born soprano and a recipient of two double lung transplants. Charity has performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia in venues as diverse as the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City; The Kennedy C...

Inference: International Review of Science Feedback & Comments George Scialabba Contributing editor of the online art and literary magazine The Baffler. “T look forward to reading it, as usual.” James Sharpe Professor of Early Modern History. “Again, my thanks for having bee...

70 increasingly flood public events put on by US think tanks in Washington, using the events as press conferences and to pose leading questions. While Western reporters are not immune to this type of behavior, the Chinese media undertake such distortions in a far more systematic...

42 state, stating in a letter addressed to their state’s universities that these organizations “are a threat to our nation’s security by serving as a platform for China’s intelligence collection and political agenda.” They added that, “We have a responsibility to uphold our Amer...

… ’s lives are hugely improved, a future where there are no losers. A key realization here is that what chiefly prevents humanity from achieving its full potential might be our instinctive sense that we’re in a zero-sum game—a game in which players are supposed to eke out small wi...

204 “T don’t know him, but I know someone who does,” he answered. “Why are you interested in seeing Kucherena?” I told him that I wanted to speak to him about Snowden but that I had been unable to arrange a meeting. “That’s no problem,” he said, raising his cell phone (which n...

slammed Hagel for his past comments and positions on Iran. In conjunction with Israel-friendly members of Congress, they’ve warned Obama to rein Hagel in so as not to send a dovish signal to Tehran. Robert Satloff, executive direction of the Washington Institute for Near East Pol...

…h active learning, expected value decision making, and optimization of allocations of key resources, such as dollars or human effort, can be targeted at monitoring, understanding, and then working to influence the beliefs and actions of large populations of people. Data can be co...

The fact that we feel less empathy for people in pain if they fall outside our inner sanctum suggests that we have dehumanized them, stripping away dimensions of experience that humanize those within the sanctum. These are the dimensions associated with emotion, and when taken aw...

…ing political justice from the streets of Cairo to Tripoli. But the British film with the most heart wins as one single human voice can still make a difference. The king has spoken. ✦ Fran Lebowitz Julie Chen Ellen Barkin Naomi Watts Joan Collins Chace Crawford

…kes no difference. It is all an attempt to see how things work by building some facsimile. This is an important idea in human thinking, and a course should be taught to undergraduates on how to do it by the people who actually do it, teaching different techniques as they go. They...

…oles in the fountain operates without concern for what happens outside in the world. The hand that pushes down is under human control, consciously guided, perhaps with the aim of simply spreading the water or feeling its’ coolness on a hot day. Though the hand may try to control...

… have a thing to do with it, it was all Jeffrey’s idea but good-luck anyways.” She gave me her best impression of being human for a brief second and hugged me back. It was just her way and I had come to accept it. Depending on the level of slander her insults provoked was just he...

…get away from U.S. imperial- ism,” he said. “I was militant and crazy. But at some point I said, Ted, this is not being human.” Kaptchuk decided to pursue studies in Chinese philosophy and medicine at the source. Beijing had yet to open its bor- ders to Americans, but Kaptchuk h...

…e psychology of desire, our engagement with denial is sometimes benign and often beneficial as a coping mechanism. We dehumanize in order to buffer ourselves from the pain of another’s pain. We self-deceive in the service of boosting self-confidence and self-esteem. When doctors...