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Because the mainstream media has been censored in Iran, it’s very hard to get a sense from TV of what’s going on. Based on the posts and tweets on AndrewSullivan.com and HuffingtonPost.com — two of the best sources — the situation has worsened. For instance, Andrew posts these tweets from Baharestan Sq: “I see many…

RH Reality Check linked to a fascinating article on a site called “Science Notes” about the reasons for third trimester abortions. As regular readers know, I’ve been hunting for good stats so I was interested in the author’s data about “What causes third trimester abortions?” The author recounted a 1999 study that concluded: 40% of…

For years, we saw the famous image of a Vietnamese man about to be executed — without realizing that there was film of him actually being shot, crumpling to the ground. For years, we saw only the part of the Zapruder film in which President Kennedy was shot in the neck and not the horrifying…

Though Mohandas Gandhi valued simplicity, he would undoubtedly be delighted that the rampant spread of technology has made Gandhian non-violence more effective. Indeed, the digital age — when every phone is a camera and a telegraph — makes Gandhism far more potent than it was when he was alive. Truth is, Gandhi’s approach was not…
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