And Who Is a Person? The Problem with Hobby Lobby (Part I)

Posted on July 17, 2014

It is this extension of protections to for-profit corporations (closely held), that has moved early commentary from the legal academy to conclude that the most enduring legacy of Hobby Lobby may not be in the area of religious liberty but, rather, in an expanded (and expanding) notion of corporate personhood

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Recombinant Approaches

Posted on July 7, 2014
Image: The Traveler Remembers_Friday, 1987, by Nancy Goldring; courtesy of the artist.

Though careful observation comes first, my process involves research: detecting palimpsests in the architecture or observing how people move and inhabit the place.

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Brother Rat?

Posted on June 16, 2014
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What happens if we become willing to trade in an understanding of a rich and meaning-laden feature of our nature for, well, something we can share with a rat.

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Are We Losing the Attention War?

Posted on June 3, 2014
In its upcoming summer issue, The Hedgehog Review has invited contributors to examine aspects of our attention disorder that seldom receive careful consideration. As they show, attention may be far less a technological or neurobiological problem than a cultural, ethical, and philosophical one, bound up with our deepest ideas about the human person and the purposes of our lives.
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Just Deserts

Posted on May 28, 2014
Just what do you deserve? Quite a lot according to today’s marketers and ad copywriters. From healthcare to fast food, you deserve choices, you deserve the best, and—most hyperbolically—you deserve it all.
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