Violence

In March, Keith Ruiter wrote a Conversation article contending that, although Trump has "Viking" ancestry, he would not have fared well in Norse society, because his temperament lacks the Norse virtue of hóf (moderation or restraint).

Content warning: this post discusses rape and sexual violence. A retiring judge recently faced accusations of victim blaming when she used her final courtroom case as a plea to women to “protect themselves” from rapists

Content warning: this post discusses rape and sexual violence. One does not have to look far to find indications of the normalization of sexual violence (a phenomenon known as rape culture) in news articles, pop

Going by the polarised social media reaction over the past few days, Martin McGuinness is as divisive in death as he was in life. But whatever you think of him and the politics he represented,

In an interview with the ABC news network, U.S. President Donald Trump recently defended the use of waterboarding, stating the view that it “absolutely works” and indicating his wish to see the practise of this

The 8th of May, VE Day, is a good time to reflect on how the Allied victory in Europe made the continent a better place. The extreme brutality and bloodthirstiness of the Axis powers still