Our Books, Ourselves
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A personal library, like a toolshed, lives in a state of frequent and pseudo-fruitful interruption.
You liberal you!
Posted on July 13, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: “When you can bear your own emptiness, you are free,” by Benjamin Balázs; flickr.com.
A human spirit of community and kindness can be learned. But it can also be forgotten.
Handmind in Covidtide
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on July 9, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Gardener working a cypress in the cemetery of Tulcán, located in the city of Tulcán, capital of the Carchi Province, north of Ecuador. Diego Delso / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
By forcibly breaking some of our technological habits, Covidtide creatively destabilizes others.
The Dirty Work of Killing
Posted on July 16, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Illustration by Lubov Chipurko/Shutterstock.
It doesn’t feel like a coincidence that meat consumption has risen as fewer Americans participate in or even think about the slaughter that allows it.
Alexander Herzen and the Plural World
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on July 21, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Herzen and an 1865 edition of The Bell.
Herzen won’t stop striving for social transformation with every ounce of energy he has, but also won’t pick up Chernyshevsky’s axe.
Still Searching
Posted on July 23, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Nuclear reactor diagrams/Library of Congress, Science Photo Library; diagram of a whale from an 1880s comparative zoology textbook.
The Internet is a technical system that has reshaped social roles and relationships in ways that we are at this point far from fully understanding. We are living out the terms of the new social contract.