Avoiding the Trap of Sacrificial Math
Must we pit the health of the economy against the lives of the many people projected to die if strong measures are not taken against the spread of the coronavirus?
In Self-Isolation with The Plague
Posted on March 25, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Algeria; photo RNW.org via flickr.com
To the relatives of the dead, the plague is here.
The Rebirth of Purgatory
Posted on February 27, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Sculpture of Purgatory at White Temple in Chiang Rai. Jakub Hałun via Wikimedia Commons.
While the purgatorial “industries” of Transhumanism might not yet represent a counter-revolution on the order of the Reformation, they are already substantial enough to warrant our attention.
Remembering Kobe with Respect, Not Adulation
Posted on February 5, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: A basketball. (Batistaya via Wikimedia Commons.)
Dear friends: The man bounced a rubber ball for a living.
It’s Complicated
Posted on January 23, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Giant lollipops for sale in Barcelona, Spain. (Michael Ströck, via Wikimedia Commons.)
What’s up with us humans, us American humans, that we’re committing ourselves more and more to unbending postures?
On Critical Thinking
Posted on August 13, 2019
in THR Web Features
Image: William of Nottingham lecturing to a group of students at Oxford or Cambridge (Jacobus le Palmer, c. 1350). Via Wikimedia Commons.
We can only think critically about things about which we have knowledge.
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