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On Tele-teaching

by Richard Hughes Gibson
Posted on April 1, 2020 in THR Web Features
Image: Image By: ccPixs.com

Any channel through which we can still communicate is good. It’s just not enough.

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The Good Life of Staying at Home

by Jeffrey Guhin
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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Avoiding the Trap of Sacrificial Math

by Robert Reed
Posted on March 30, 2020 in THR Web Features
Image: Marie Heim-Vögtlin as a patient in Berlin (1915). Via Wikimedia Commons.

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?

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In Self-Isolation with The Plague

by John Rosenthal
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. 

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The Rebirth of Purgatory

by Richard Hughes Gibson
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.

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Remembering Kobe with Respect, Not Adulation

by Mark Edmundson
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.

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