Month: February 2014

Two Animations of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: One Narrated by Orson Welles, Another Made with Clay “The ever-flickering lights, the ever-present screen, the stupefied spectators immune to a larger reality and in need of sudden enlightenment—Plato’s allegory of the cave from Book VII of The Republic … lends itself to compellingly brief visual interpretations… .” Continue reading Two Animations of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: One Narrated by Orson Welles, Another Made with Clay

The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program “The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes – an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people.” Continue reading The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program