Melusine, Dragon Mother of Humanity
How Free Societies Are Dismantled from Within By Janet Kira Lessin (Primary Author)Contributing Author: Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) THE ORWELLIAN OVERLAY How Free Societies Are Dismantled from Within Article 1 of an 18-Article Series INTRODUCTION George Orwell did not imagine a distant dystopia so much as he described a recurring political and …
FAIR WITNESS: TELLING THE TRUTH WITHOUT CONTROLLING IT How a concept born in science fiction became a quiet force for justice, psychological healing, and moral clarity in a fractured world By Janet Kira LessinCo-Author: Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) 🔧 WORK IN PROGRESS – This article is part of an ongoing series and may …
BEFORE IT BECOMES LAW: A TEST OF HUMANITY What if every law had to pass the kindness test before it passed Congress?By Janet Kira Lessin “It’s legal,” they say.“But is it humane?” I ask. That one question—Is it humane?—may be the single most important challenge we can pose to modern lawmaking. As we witness authoritarianism …