On the Psyche, Mental Disorders, Psychiatry, Comte, Foucault, and the Film Dark NunsIs modern psychiatry a singular, unrivaled grand narrative, or — as Lyotard argues in The Postmodern Condition — should it be regarded merely as one petit récit among many parallel narratives? Kabul 24: The human psyche has been.
Today, American officials joined Kurdish leaders in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, to inaugurate the largest U.S. consulate in the world. The visible joy of the Kurdish leaders was most vividly reflected in the words of Masrour Barzani. Kabul 24: He said: “This massive twenty-hectare complex is like.
The later Wittgenstein said that the task of philosophy is to untie linguistic knots. Kabul 24: In his view, many of the things we call “problems” do not arise from the nature of the world, but from the misuse or ambiguity of words.Wittgenstein distinguished between real problems, which concern the.
In On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche seeks to show that what we call “conscience” is not a heavenly, self-evident gift, but a historical product forged through violence and the suppression of instincts. Kabul 24: Instead of asking “What is conscience?”, he asks “How was conscience made, and what is.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, with an urgent and official statement following Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s attack on two U.S. National Guardsmen, that it is immediately suspending the review of all asylum applications, humanitarian visas, temporary protected status adjustments, and any immigration-related cases involving.
Umberto Eco warned that social media has turned the public sphere into a place where “a legion of idiots” speak with the same confidence and equal rights as Nobel Prize winners. Kabul 24: A space in which the boundary between knowledge and ignorance collapses, and the weight of discourse is.
A quote attributed to Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, says: Kabul 24: “When we strive to earn one million dollars, the truly valuable thing we gain is not the million dollars itself, but the character that is built and nurtured within us along the way.” I have always applied.
The image of Ronaldo, Trump, Musk, and Bin Salman side by side is a vivid illustration and symbol of politics in 2025. The powerful men of our era: the world’s most famous footballer and a young reformist autocrat perched atop a sea of oil, feasting alongside the leader of the.
In today’s world, certain moments matter not because of what is visibly happening, but because of what remains deliberately hihidden. Kabul 24: The renewed encounter between Mohammed bin Salman and Donald Trump is exactly that kind of moment: the intersection of two personal power projects, each with its own urgent.
This morning, I read a thoughtful piece by Armin Langerudi, an Iranian writer, on the relationship between the Iranian diaspora and enlightenment. In it, he spoke of the strikingly weak role that the Iranian diaspora has played in the intellectual enlightenment and transformation of its home society. Kabul 24: That.
It seems the Maduro regime is living on borrowed time. The U.S. State Department’s designation of Nicolás Maduro as the leader of the “Cartel de los Soles” narco-terrorist organization is a clear signal that the likelihood of military action against him has sharply increased. Kabul 24: The United States and.
Zohran Mamdani, a Shia Muslim, immigrant, and social democrat, has become mayor of New York—the largest city in America and the financial capital of the world. Kabul 24: Mamdani, who says he draws inspiration from the resistance of Imam Hussein against tyranny, addressed Trump directly: “Donald Trump, I know you’re.
