The Advantages of Disadvantages
People should always be glad when something derails us from our routine, and this is truly a massive derailment, a derailment into peace.
Weird Tales
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on April 2, 2020
Ghost stories and other tales of horror concern unpredictable, sometimes ambiguous or indescribable, forces that display hostility or at best indifference to us.
On Tele-teaching
Any channel through which we can still communicate is good. It’s just not enough.
The Good Life of Staying at Home
Posted on March 31, 2020
Image: Baby holding an adult's finger. (Wayne Evans, via Wikimedia Commons.)
As far back as Aristotle, we’ve known that material inequality makes the good life easier to get.
Avoiding the Trap of Sacrificial Math
by
Robert Reed
Posted on March 30, 2020
Image: Marie Heim-Vögtlin as a patient in Berlin (1915). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Must we pit the health of the economy against the lives of the many people projected to die if strong measures are not taken against the spread of the coronavirus?
In Self-Isolation with The Plague
To the relatives of the dead, the plague is here.