Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars...
Oppression is the act of using power to empower and/or privilege a group at the expense of disempowering, marginalizing, silencing, and subordinating another. It is particularly closely associated with nationalism and derived social systems, wherein...
In Little Rock, Ark., in recent days, a black restaurant owner and community activist has twice threatened to burn an American flag since the Supreme Court ruling upholding the right of protesters to burn the flag. "How can you love the flag and want...
Iran's Foundation of the Oppressed was established from the fortune of the shah and was designed to redistribute the wealth to the nation's poor. The foundation has made a lot of money in various investments, but not much of it has filtered down to...
Within days of taking power, Saddam Hussein summoned about 400 top officials and announced he had uncovered a plot against the ruling party. The conspirators, he said, were in that very room. As the 42-year-old Saddam coolly puffed on a cigar, names of the supposed...
Remember Julianne Moore’s heartbreaking turn as a 50's housewife in The Hours? Her character’s style—embodying “the seamless appearances and the tony aspirations of midcentury Middle America”—is so hot right now. [NYT] In what is perhaps the most expensive Super Bowl ad ever made (above),...
