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Top: Alphonse Bertillon's self-taken mugshot (1900) Bottom: A canvas from Andy Warhol's Most Wanted Men series (1964)   I.    Tha...

Mugshots of Donald Trump (24 August, 2023)  and Hermann Göring (22 June 1945)     So much has already been said about Donald Trump's in...

"I'm not a discharge / I'm not a loss in protein  I'm not a throbbing squirm"     I.    The debate around the issue ...

Xi Jinping: General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party President of the People's Republic of China 世界皇帝        I.   However you ...

I.    D. H. Lawrence opens his 1929 essay on pornography and obscenity by claiming that there is no consensus of opinion regarding a defin...

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 EV )  Although a white European male, mature in years, I'm not a statesman or ruler of any kind, so it...

There are doubtless reasons why some people refer to themselves in the third person. But outside of books, where it's sometimes u...

Compassion Fatigue (2014) by Ashley Reaks As a full-time carer for an elderly parent, 92, with Alzheimer's, I'm intrigued ...

News that a coven of American witches, assembled via Facebook and including the singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey among their number, met ...

Spot the difference: Sweden's Minister for EU Affairs and Trade  and Iran's Vice President for Women and Family Affairs,  mode...

Photo credit : AP/LM Otero I hate to be one of those people who says I told you so, but, back in 2008, in a series of essays on m...

Ben Carson by Gage Skidmore (2015) Donald Trump is clearly not stupid: ignorant, perhaps, but he's mostly just a nasty piece of...

Actually, as a philosopher, I try to avoid dealing in opinions - particularly personal  opinions - and I can't stand opinionated ...