Doctors Are Prescribing Powerful Antipsychotics to Many People With No Mental Illness
Sep 4, 2015 Large numbers of people with learning disabilities and no record of severe mental illness are being prescribed strong psychotropic drugs, possibly as a means of subduing and controlling uncooperative patients, research shows.
Will the Mighty Blockbuster Fail and the People Be Saved?
May 18, 2014 As "Godzilla" storms the box office this weekend, observers note that the entertainment industry's lust for high profits via mega-hits is narrowing the number and kinds of stories told and amplifying conformity among the public.
The Instigator
Feb 18, 2013
We Value Belonging More Than Privacy
Dec 22, 2012 In his new book on the global surveillance machine, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and co-authors fail to give the societywide fear “of being lonely and left out” its proper credit as a driver of totalitarianism, Laurie Penny writes on New Statesman.
Being Gay
Sep 9, 2012 Being gay was an expression of nonconformity that had less to do with an urge to proclaim my affection for one type of sex over another than a desire to lodge a formal protest against convention.
Non-Conformist
Jan 12, 2009
