The Threat of Statelessness

Hannah Arendt states in The Origins of Totalitarianism that statelessness leads to rightlessness for persons. Basic privileges like owning a home or legal rights, such as being protected by the government start being stripped away.  It’s not only in their country that they lose rights, but as a stateless person, they lose rights in all […]

when in doubt, pray

I’m telling myself, when in doubt, pray.  I am in the middle of writing a paper which is due tomorrow.  I’ve been sitting at my desk for couple hours now not being able to start getting back into working on the paper.  All I can think is, Oh Lord, Have Mercy on Me, Come quickly […]