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Anyone who reads history knows who is usually behind book burning. The film illustrates this bluntly by pairing footage of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels leading university students in burning thousands of books in Berlin in May 1933, followed by a more recent example of a pastor leading a book burning in the Nashville suburb of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee in February 2022.
The survey of more than 90,000 military personnel – including full-time personnel referred to as regulars, and part-time reservists – highlights a wide spectrum of harassment – from verbal to physical.
For many, the hardest part of dying isn’t physical pain but the fear, anxiety and sense of meaninglessness that often accompany it. While palliative care in the UK is rightly praised for easing pain and managing symptoms, patients’ emotional and spiritual suffering is often less well addressed. Standard treatments – such as antidepressants, counselling and mindfulness – may ease some symptoms but often fail to help patients accept their diagnosis or find meaning in their remaining time. This is where psychedelic therapy may offer support.
The Irish Congress of Trade Union have labelled the move as a “payment freeze”. Congress general secretary Owen Reidy said: “The anger of the trade union movement at this stealth cut to Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit is compounded by a budget that does next to nothing to protect the living standards of the average worker.
Same-sex marriage is not allowed in China, and censorship of LGBTQ topics online and in film and literature has tightened in recent years. Conservative voices say that such groups risk creating conflict in society and are speeding up population decline.
Democracy collapses when humiliation becomes the organizing principle of politics, when revenge feels more righteous than inclusion. Above: Escape from New York (1981).
Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that anxiety may be controlled not by neurons but by two dueling groups of immune cells inside the brain. These microglia act like biological pedals—one pushing anxiety forward and the other holding it back.