Quick Post On Humans

One of the most exciting things of the last 25-years is the huge increase in knowledge about early humans. This often seems absent from not only debates on migration, but also textbooks and popular cultural narratives. There’s lots we know now, that we didn’t (widely) know when I was 20: Our main new information source … Continue reading Quick Post On Humans →

Antecedence Matters

Antecedence matters. In the Bible, John 10:22-42 describes Jesus being stoned for blasphemy. Modern translations have Jesus calling himself "the son of God". But it can equally be "a" "son of God". When he is being stoned for blasphemy for calling himself "son of God", modern translations say: 34 Jesus replied, “It is written in … Continue reading Antecedence Matters →

Reflections on Stangl & Eichmann

What do Hannah Arendt's report of the Adolf Eichmann trial "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and Gitta Sereny's interviews with Franz Stangl, "Into That Darkness" tell us about how individuals are able to facilitate mass murder?