Rorotoko
  • interviews
  • people
  • books
 
Judi Pajo, Editor
 
 
 

COVER INTERVIEW OF


February 05, 2012

rorotoko.com

Michael B. Katz

 

On his book Why Don't American Cities Burn?

 

Tag: 21st Century

Cover Interview of April 10, 2011
Louise Shelley On her book Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective

Cover Interview of August 22, 2010
Melinda Blau On her and Karen Fingerman's book Consequential Strangers: Turning Everyday Connections Into Life-Changing Moments

Cover Interview of March 02, 2010
Kirk Savage On his book Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape

Cover Interview of February 16, 2010
John Protevi On his book Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic

 1 2 >

 
 
 


[T]he Holocaust transformed our whole way of thinking about war and heroism. War is no longer a proving ground for heroism in the same way it used to be. Instead, war now is something that we must avoid at all costs—because genocides often take place under the cover of war. We are no longer all potential soldiers (though we are that too), but we are all potential victims of the traumas war creates. This, at least, is one important development in the way Western populations envision war, even if it does not always predominate in the thinking of our political leaders.

Carolyn J. Dean,
Interview of February 01, 2011




The dominant premise in evolution and economics is that a person is being loyal to natural law if he or she attends to self’s interest and welfare before being concerned with the needs and demands of family or community. The public does not realize that this statement is not an established scientific principle but an ethical preference. Nonetheless, this belief has created a moral confusion among North Americans and Europeans because the evolution of our species was accompanied by the disposition to worry about kin and the collectives to which one belongs.

Jerome Kagan,
Interview of September 17, 2009




 
  • user agreement
  • privacy
  • copyright
  • contact
  • advertise
Rorotoko

Copyright © 2008-2023 Rorotoko LLC