Musings on Mortality: How 'death phobia' contributes to xenophobia

In this column, I write about the relationship between an ever-increasing xenophobia, fear of the "other," and human violence as terrorism and war, to what happens when individuals are reminded of their own mortality. While this is not an academic paper, I do draw upon... Read more.

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