We try to reckon with the monstrous, to discover when the humanity died, or if it existed in the first place — maybe in part to assure ourselves that we are not monsters, too.
See articleIeng Sary, one of four senior leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge government to have been charged with crimes against humanity, died at the age of 87, during his trial.
That Mr Milosevic, who was charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, died unconvicted by the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague will mean that his legacy remains in dispute.
We try to reckon with the monstrous, to discover when the humanity died, or if it existed in the first place maybe in part to assure ourselves that we are not monsters, too.
Our current solo status on Earth is therefore an evolutionary oddity – though it is not clear when our species became Earth's only masters, nor is it clear why we survived when all other versions of humanity died out.
Lotus Thief is a San Francisco metal duo most notable for including the guy from Botanist, a baroque outsider black-metal project featuring hammered dulcimers and songs about humanity dying out and being replaced by a world of plants.
Geoffrey Marshall, the former provost of the City University of New York and the former deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, died Nov. 18 at his home in Cranbury, N.J.
Claiborne Pell, the quirky, patrician former senator from Rhode Island who created the college grant program that bears his name and wrote the legislation that established the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, died just after midnight Thursday at his Newport, R.I., home.
And then humanity will die out and beetles will rule the world.
