Totalitarianism and Class Warfare in George Orwell’s Animal Farm

Economics and Farm Animal Welfare

Class Warfare: Classes vs. Prototypes

An examination of recent work on prototype-based architectures for object-oriented programming raises a number of interesting questions, the most obvious being: Are prototype-based object-oriented architectures superior to class-based architectures? Another way of addressing the same issues might be to ask: Are class-based architectures over-centralized, and excessively rigid? This work also ra...

Modelling Farm Animal Welfare

The use of models in the life sciences has greatly expanded in scope and advanced in technique in recent decades. However, the range, type and complexity of models used in farm animal welfare is comparatively poor, despite the great scope for use of modeling in this field of research. In this paper, we review the different modeling approaches used in farm animal welfare science to date, discuss...

Class Warfare: Thersites in the Iliad

Islamism and Totalitarianism

Ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and even more so since the spectacular attacks by Qa‘idat al-Jihad against the U.S. on 9/11, there has been an ever-growing flood of academic and journalistic publications devoted to radical Islam. Unfortunately, much of that literature has embodied problematic conceptual perspectives that can best be characterized as ‘Islam bashing’, ‘Islam apologism’, o...