Montesquieu’s Triangulation
Every country needs triangulation in order to achieve self-understanding and prudent decision-making.
The Algorithm and the Hippocratic Oath
Doctors need a medical humanities that does more than just help them see health and disease through a patient’s eyes.
Grief That Speaks
by
Aaron Brown
Posted on September 19, 2024
Image: Sarcophagus with scenes from the myth of Medea, Roman, 150-170 BC; Altes Museum, Berlin.
The vocabulary of grief is never complete.
America’s Cloven Fiction
By affirming one side and suppressing the other, we make ourselves into half men and half women.
The Gift of Reality
Even in a technological age, Albert Borgmann believed we can still have what is real.
Morning Person
Posted on August 28, 2024
Image: © Mark Hertzberg/ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Stock Photo.
This fall marks Tommy Tate’s twentieth year as a crossing guard for the city of Washington, DC.