Archive for August, 2006
Poli Psy: “Newborn Tragedies”
Published August 30, 2006
In August, while the headlines reported the mounting deaths of already-born Lebanese and Israeli children, a bill to save American “children,” both “pre-born” and pregnant, moved toward passage. Senate bill 403, the Child Custody Protection Act, criminalizes the transport of a pregnant minor across state lines to get an abortion, if the transporter isn’t the [...]
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Poli Psy: Doing Justice
Published August 2, 2006
Hope moves every fight against injustice. This hope is not, as Emily Dickinson would have it, a thing with feathers. It is made of steel, plus some stimulant elixir — maybe lunacy. The Italian political theorist and activist Antonio Gramsci called it “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” One story of a massive [...]