Firmness
Time to adopt a new hero: Lew Archer, private detective.
A Painter Crawling toward God
Posted on April 14, 2020
Image: Pietà, 1575–1576, by Titian (1490–1576); Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice; Wikipedia.
A deeply personal encounter with the plague.
Covidien and the Failure of Corporate Social Responsibility
Posted on April 13, 2020
Image: Covidien facility in California; Kristoffer Tripplaar/SIPA via AP Images.
We can’t take CEOs’ high-flown gestures at face value.
False Positive
Posted on April 10, 2020
Image: President Gerald Ford receiving a swine flu inoculation from the White House physician, October 14, 1976; David Hume Kennerly, Gerald Ford Presidential Library; Wikimedia Commons.
How are we to respond when faced with competing uncertainties?
The School of Anxiety
by
Matt Dinan
Posted on April 9, 2020
Image: Lonely man covers his fan in fear. (Via Wikimedia Commons.)
Anxiety teaches nothing but possibility, but I, at least, am a finite being.
Radical Hope Amid Catastrophe
by
Vafa Ghazavi
Posted on April 8, 2020
Image: Part of the July 2017 Christian Dior exhibit at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. (Joe deSousa via Wikimedia Commons.)
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What happens to a culture—a social order—and the beliefs that sustain it, in the face of a microscopic enemy that has little regard for borders, power, class, or celebrity?