Athelstan the Woke
I myself stopped using the term a while back.
It’s the Status, Stupid!
Posted on November 23, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Protest at Loudoun County School Board meeting, June 22, 2021.
Because this cannot be ignored. And because it may be prologue to the future.
Where the Humanities Aren’t in Crisis
Posted on November 18, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Nathan Dumlao via Unsplash.com
The benefits of the humanities have danced so gracefully through these tutorials that it’s never occurred to any of us to ask what’s the point.
Talk with the Hand!
Posted on November 15, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Chirogram from John Bulwer's Chirologia, 1644. Via Wikimedia Commons.
I observed that the most effective communicators delivered the most histrionic performances.
Between Utopia and Disaster
by
Malloy Owen
Posted on November 11, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Still from Meta's Metaverse announcement video. October 28, 2021. Via Youtube.
The modern state is founded on a dream—the dream of perfect knowledge that secures perfect power.
The Kierkegaardian Leap of Climate Activism
by
Rhoda Feng
Posted on November 8, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Students protest during climate change strike. Melbourne, Australia, March 13, 2020. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Throughout the book, Sherrell eschews the phrase “climate crisis,” substituting a much more nebulous term: “the Problem.”
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