It was actually pretty common for women not to scream or call the cops in rape cases I prosecuted, Roe said, at least partly because women aren’t wired to react that way. We are socialized to be likea...
The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence—the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes—all of it is tempo...
The urge to catalog the myriad blunders in order to learn from the mistakes is for the most part an exercise in denial and self-deception.
Allison asked him, Has this happened before?… No! Never! Donaldson sobbed. This is the first time anything has ever happened to me like this. Ever!…I
The U.S. legal system is organized as an adversarial contest: in civil cases, between two citizens; in criminal cases, between a citizen and the state. Physical violence and intimidation are not allow...
It is morally impossible to remain neutral in this conflict. The bystander is forced to take a side.It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystan...
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the co...
Se essa aventura se revelar fatal e nunca mais tiver notícias de mim, quero que saiba que você é um grande homem. Caminho agora para dentro da Natureza Selvagem
I had been granted unusual freedom and responsibility at an early age, for which I should have been grateful in the extreme, but I wasn’t. Instead, I felt oppressed by the old man’s expectations. It w...
Solitude was a rare commodity on Everest, and I was grateful to be granted a bit of it on this day, in such a remarkable setting.
When Debbie was fourteen, she felt impressed by the Lord to marry Ray Blackmore, the community leader. Debbie asked her father to share her divine impression with Prophet LeRoy Johnson, who would peri...
When Alex left for Alaska, Franz remembers, I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learne...
Suddenly, [Cecilia Washburn] was getting a lot of attention from her friends, Pabst explained to the jury. Attention from the dean of the pharmacy school….Attention by Dean Charles Couture, the then d...
I was irresistibly drawn to write about Latter-Day Saints not only because I already knew something about their theology, and admired much about their culture, but also because of the utterly unique c...
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.… We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the mult...
Unfortunately, the sort of individual who is programmed to ignore personal distress and keep pushing for the top is frequently programmed to disregard signs of grave and imminent danger as well. This...
My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards...
Drunk guys who may have ‘made mistakes’ nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not. Compounding
My life was falling apart. But somehow I stuck it out.
There is an overwhelming inclination to keep the unsavory particulars hidden from public view, to pretend the calamity never occurred. Thus it has always been, and probably always will be. As Aeschylu...
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