The over-man, the superwomyn, and creatures beyond good and evil.

Posted on by Dr. Alina Sotskova

What grinds your gears? Stepping on gum when you bought new shoes? Your neighbour’s taste in music at 5am? Waking up to interesting aromas wafting gently into your bedroom from your cat’s litter box, like a sweet deathly wave of chemical weaponry? Yes, those things grind my gears, too. But you know what else grinds my gears? … Continue reading The over-man, the superwomyn, and creatures beyond good and evil.

A murderer’s philosophy: The Loeb and Leopold case.

Posted on by Dr. Alina Sotskova

Only the privileged few, the “supermen” above the law, may commit murder, or at least this was the claim of Loeb and Leopold who committed arguably one of the most controversial crimes of the 20th century. When I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope,” an adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s play about the famous case, I became engrossed … Continue reading A murderer’s philosophy: The Loeb and Leopold case.