Tag Archives: Hannah Arendt

When facts don’t matter, democracy dies.

Posted on October 4, 2016 by lawrence serewicz

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. – Daniel Patrick Moynihan The reason people think facts are subjective is that facts are not self-evident, they require context to be understood. We could say that Belgium … Continue reading →

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Response to Corey Robin on Eichmann: funny man

Posted on November 9, 2014 by lawrence serewicz

(This post is a response to Corey Robbin’s blog[1]) One must always remember that ridicule is not a refutation. The most direct way to put this is that victims of the Final Solution did not laugh their way to the … Continue reading →

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The banality of institutional ignorance: Rotherham and child sexual exploitation

Posted on September 24, 2014 by lawrence serewicz

When people first heard the news about Rotherham Council’s child sexual exploitation scandal, they may have thought the Council and the Police were incompetent.[1] Some may have compared it to Haringey Council’s failure to protect Peter Donnelly (Baby P) and … Continue reading →

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