The Nation of 17 May carried a piece about the shortcomings of the new South Africa. The article seems well-informed and mostly reasonable, and some (but not all) of the shortcomings seem short indeed. But my heart sank when I saw it. It’s not that I thought post-apartheid South Africa was [...]
One of my consulting clients is a group called Global Kids. I’m helping with its Newz Crew project, which involves high school-age kids in online dialogues about global issues. Each time a group starts, the kids are given an article to discuss, and one of my tasks is to formulate questions about the [...]
In 1971, psychology professor Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment in which Stanford students played the roles of prisoners and guards in a simulated prison in redecorated labs and a boarded-up corridor of the Psychology Department. They were all healthy male students who’d passed psychological tests and given informed consent about the deprivations they might [...]
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