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Bigger Capitalism, Better Hearts: Addressing Random Violence

Bigger Capitalism, Better Hearts: Addressing Random Violence

June 17, 2014 at 5:00 pm 2 comments

by Matthew P. Cavedon: A particularly maddening sort of violence—seemingly random violence—has been in the news a lot lately. Maddening, perhaps, because as Stephen Pinker’s Better Angels of Our Nature showed, modern society is less violent in many ways than what came before it. How can American violence be at […]

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Killing James Holmes Would Only Feed the Culture of Violence

Killing James Holmes Would Only Feed the Culture of Violence

January 10, 2013 at 12:00 pm 2 comments

by Kathleen Hunker If Americans truly wish to break the culture of violence, they must first rise above their own instinct for retribution. Last July, James Holmes walked into a premier screening of Batman: Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado. He opened fire on the crowd, killing 12 souls, wounding […]

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