Scaring children witless
‘Eco-anxiety’ has become the latest fashionable malaise. Apparently it is afflicting many children. That kids as young as four and five...
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Environment
- Aug 2, 2019
- 8 min
The turn against motherhood
There is a difference between an individual deciding not to have children and someone embracing the view that there is something...
- Nov 4, 2011
- 4 min
Knee-jerk reaction as nuclear hysteria engulfs German society
Almost instantaneously the catastrophe that devastated Japan was transformed into an immediate existential threat to the German way of...
- Sep 17, 2011
- 4 min
Possibilities for fear remain endless
In the contemporary vocabulary of public life, the term climate change signals the idea of an alarming threat, which in turn demands that...
- Mar 14, 2011
- 5 min
Japan: a catastrophe, not a disaster movie
The devastation unleashed by the mega earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan last Friday is one of the greatest disasters the country...
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