activist is not an easy one. They often face backlash, criticism, arrest, imprisonment, and even threats to

account of prideful sociability, testing it against the criticism of, among others, David Hume."---Jeffrey

as civic brainwashing; and Thucydides's criticism of Athenian democracy is applied to modern America

mistakes criticism and attacks, and to always present oneself in the right light vis-à-vis the competition

, sovereign appearance and a calm handling of sabotage & criticism can be learned, self-love is the key to

embarrassing situations. But authentic self-confidence, a confident demeanor and a calm approach to criticism

criticism. "Were Snowden's leaks justified? Rahul Sagar's Secrets and Leaks sheds important light on the

tendency to indulge in the self-conscious idiom of academic ethnography and reflexive criticism of US

photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and

persisting tension between Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti-Stoic criticism, which held

prisoners on his state's death row. Critics demonized Ryan. For opponents of capital punishment, however