Ambivalence has two very different faces. 13 It can torment us with existential anxiety and trigger feelings of tension and conflict we feel driven to escape. Yet it can also motivate and enable us to ...

Anne's first selection is Carolina Oliphant's "The Maiden's Vow", and while you couldn't hear it in the Japanese (or at least, I couldn't), from the subtitles you should have seen that it's ...

The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which caused the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, has posed significant healthcare challenges. In addition to ...

Is this a Hegelian construct of Aufhebung (lifting up) to a higher level of consciousness—where resolution can be achieved because reality at the base level is understood dialectically but not ...

Jean Améry is best known in the anglophone world as a Holocaust survivor and author of At The Mind’s Limits, an Auschwitz memoir hailed by the critic Irving Howe as ‘the testimony of a profoundly ...

“Companheiro—.” The precocious revolutionary speaks to me tenderly, dialectically from her wealth of experience as a daughter of the people and a fearless combatant: “There is no need to ...

So, when national struggles have some progressive elements, we approach them dialectically. We distinguish between the nationalism of the oppressed and the nationalism of the oppressor, but at the ...

The internet is full is misinformation, conspiracies, and lies. Each week, we tackle the misunderstandings that are going viral. A few weeks ago, I posted a story about the proliferation of AI ...

Background: Overuse stands as an important factor in the unreasonable growth of healthcare expenditure in many countries, increasing the burden of both patients and national healthcare insurance. The ...