S. Freud, T. Szasz, J. Kagan, J.S.Mill, K. Marx, S. Akhtar, D.H. Lawrence… on IP.net from Sasha Rolde

Dear Colleagues:

As the winter doldrums continue and the violence in the world is keeping up pace, our government threatens a partial shut down and children face a much longer school year due to snow days, what good is there happening on our planet? I turn to the international psychoanalytic website, as it is usually pretty accurate in how it follows national and international events and trends , for solace.

I give you a choice of view posts which I have picked out, followed by the Continue reading S. Freud, T. Szasz, J. Kagan, J.S.Mill, K. Marx, S. Akhtar, D.H. Lawrence… on IP.net from Sasha Rolde

Denied: When insurance companies deny the mentally ill the treatment their doctors prescribe, seriously ill people are often discharged, and can be a danger to themselves or others

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Click Here to Read:  Denied: When insurance companies deny the mentally ill the treatment their doctors prescribe, seriously ill people are often discharged, and can be a danger to themselves or others by Scott Pelley on the 60 Minutes CBS News Website.

Katherine West

 

Troeltsch in Context

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Click Here to Read:  Troeltsch in Context by Constance L. Benson.

This Article originally appeared as Bemson, Constance L. (2002). Troeltsch in Context.  British Journal  of the History of Philosophy 10(4): 653-664 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Note from Brian D’Agustino: Anti-Semitism in American academia has a long history.  Constance L. Benson is a religion scholar who exposed anti-Semitic skeletons in the closet of Continue reading Troeltsch in Context

Real Jews are scarce in Warsaw, but ‘lucky Jew’ figurines are everywhere

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Click Here to Read: Real Jews are scarce in Warsaw, but ‘lucky Jew’ figurines are everywhere: Poles can’t get enough of the statuettes — little musicians, rabbis, merchants and bankers, with crooked noses and forked beards; some scholars fear they’re reinforcing the most dangerous of stereotypes BY Ilan Ben Zion in the Times of Israel on December 29, 2014.