Covidien and the Failure of Corporate Social Responsibility
We can’t take CEOs’ high-flown gestures at face value.
False Positive
Posted on April 10, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: President Gerald Ford receiving a swine flu inoculation from the White House physician, October 14, 1976; David Hume Kennerly, Gerald Ford Presidential Library; Wikimedia Commons.
How are we to respond when faced with competing uncertainties?
The School of Anxiety
by
Matt Dinan
Posted on April 9, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Lonely man covers his fan in fear. (Via Wikimedia Commons.)
Anxiety teaches nothing but possibility, but I, at least, am a finite being.
Radical Hope Amid Catastrophe
by
Vafa Ghazavi
Posted on April 8, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Part of the July 2017 Christian Dior exhibit at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. (Joe deSousa via Wikimedia Commons.)
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What happens to a culture—a social order—and the beliefs that sustain it, in the face of a microscopic enemy that has little regard for borders, power, class, or celebrity?
Unveiling Our New Modernity
Posted on April 7, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Statue of Gregory of Tours at the Église de la Madeleine. (GO69 via Wikimedia Commons.)
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Our world is increasingly discontinuous with the twentieth century.
The Advantages of Disadvantages
Posted on April 6, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Wenceslas Square in Prague, March 2020. (Svenkaj via Wikimedia Commons.)
People should always be glad when something derails us from our routine, and this is truly a massive derailment, a derailment into peace.
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