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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.

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Firmness

by Alan Jacobs
Posted on April 15, 2020 in THR Web Features
Image: Paperback cover illustration of Lew Archer by Mitchell Hooks.

Time to adopt a new hero: Lew Archer, private detective.

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Covidien and the Failure of Corporate Social Responsibility

by Kyle Edward Williams
Posted on April 13, 2020 in THR Web Features
Image: Covidien facility in California; Kristoffer Tripplaar/SIPA via AP Images.

We can’t take CEOs’ high-flown gestures at face value.

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A Painter Crawling toward God

by Leanne Ogasawara
Posted on April 14, 2020 in THR Web Features
Image: Pietà, 1575–1576, by Titian (1490–1576); Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice; Wikipedia.

A deeply personal encounter with the plague.

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Pruning the Mind During a Crisis

by Margarita Mooney
Posted on April 16, 2020 in THR Web Features
Image: C.S. Lewis in the 1940s.

Why should anyone focus on the life of the mind when individual and societal survival is threatened? 

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Wearing a Mask in France Would Be a Revolution

by Frédéric Keck
Posted on April 17, 2020 in THR Web Features
Image: COVID-19 mask, French style, March 2020; François Escriva via flickr.

In France, wearing a COVID-19 mask will mean a real revolution in norms governing behavior in its public space. 

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