Learning from Typhoid Mary
Efforts to protect public health can often lead to selective punishment and prejudice.
Moral Imagination Holds the Key
Posted on May 5, 2020
in THR Web Features
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?
COVID and the Common Good
Posted on April 30, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: International travelers, some wearing protective masks and gloves, wait in line before meeting with U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations officers to review their travel documents as they arrive at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., March 18, 2020. CBP Photo by Glenn Fawcett, via Wikimedia Commons.
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The common good is back, yet again.
Conditions of Life
Posted on April 28, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Protestor at April 20, 2020 Open Up Our Ohio Rally. (Paul Becker via Wikimedia Commons.)
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A comment on Giorgio Agamben’s reading of the corona pandemic.
The Machine Pauses
Posted on April 23, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Abandoned factory; Shutterstock.
It is precisely at such moments of technological dependency that one might consider interrogating one’s relationship with technology more broadly.
Lockdown Nostalgia
Posted on April 22, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Social distancing in Japan; Shutterstock.
The return to normalcy will be long, and we might even change our mind along the way.
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