PDF Button Introduction Philip K. Dick’s 1956 short story “The Minority Report” and Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film adaptation use predictive policing to test free will, evidence, due process, and institutional power. The original essay identifies the central paradox—if a person knows a predicted future, can that person change it?—but combines the story and film, calls John Anderton “Anderson,” places the film in New York in 2045, and treats prediction as

PDF Button Summary Miss Evers’ Boys is a powerful film based on the real historical events surrounding the Tuskegee syphilis study. The story focuses on a group of poor African American men in Macon County, Alabama, who were involved in a medical study conducted between 1932 and 1972. The U.S. government and medical researchers selected hundreds of men who were suffering from what was commonly called “bad blood,” a term

PDF Button Circumstances could force almost anybody to be an onlooker to the evil, but they could likewise carry out their internal hero. The impression of heroism in worse circumstances exposes the legend of the heroic elect, a myth that strengthens two elementary human propensities. The first is to assign very infrequent individual features to individuals who do somewhat very unusual to understand them as super-human, nearly far from the