Healthy, Wealthy, or Wise?
Aristotle and the pandemic debates we aren’t having.
Crisis and Beholding
Posted on May 14, 2020
Image: Doctor seated between two coronavirus patients at the Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran, Iran. Via Wikimedia Commons.
The importance of learning to see beyond our preoccupations.
Our Once and Future Citizens
Posted on May 13, 2020
Image: Social distancing while voting in Bedford, MA; The Bedford Citizen.
How might the pandemic alter civic engagement?
No Longer an Extraordinary Event
Posted on May 11, 2020
Image: Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 particles; NIH/NIAID via flickr.
Our exploitive relationship to the natural order is greatly magnifying the possibility of spillover and increasing virus virulence.
Learning from Typhoid Mary
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B.D. McClay
Posted on May 6, 2020
Image: An illustration of “Typhoid Mary” that appeared in 1909 in The New York American. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Efforts to protect public health can often lead to selective punishment and prejudice.
Moral Imagination Holds the Key
Posted on May 5, 2020
Image: Statue of Edmund Burke on painting by Hubertine Heijermans; flickr.com
How do we more lastingly move beyond the impasses we have reached on a host of ethical issues at the heart of our highly politicized culture wars?