Intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Sam Harris engaged in a rather nasty email spat that has been doing the rounds on the interwebs over the past few days after Harris made the exchange public on his website. Harris summed up the purpose of the exchange on his site: Last week, I did ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

"One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic," Joseph Stalin On April 6, 1994, the Rwandan genocide began.  Over the course of 100 days, approximately 800,000 people were slaughtered with machetes.  Paul Kagame led a Tutsi rebellion from the Congo, took control of ...read more

• By Alyson Chadwick
  Feb 18, 2016

I was extremely saddened to see a bad tempered back and forth between two  important intellectual figures, Noam Chomsky and George Monbiot over an article written by Monbiot on the definition of genocide. The two men, particularly Chomsky, have made enormous contributions to ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018