Radical Hope Amid Catastrophe
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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
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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.
Weird Tales
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on April 2, 2020
in THR Web Features
Ghost stories and other tales of horror concern unpredictable, sometimes ambiguous or indescribable, forces that display hostility or at best indifference to us.
On Tele-teaching
Any channel through which we can still communicate is good. It’s just not enough.
The Good Life of Staying at Home
Posted on March 31, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Baby holding an adult's finger. (Wayne Evans, via Wikimedia Commons.)
As far back as Aristotle, we’ve known that material inequality makes the good life easier to get.
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