The Price of Freedom
The point of reopening is not to free voluntary workers but to place more into the category of “mandatory worker.”
Against Projection; For Promise
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on May 20, 2020
Image: Illustration by Grandville from Gulliver’s Travels, 1842; Biblioteca Ambrosiana.
To make promises, to stand by one words, to be answerable for them, is to open oneself to blame.
Healthy, Wealthy, or Wise?
Posted on May 18, 2020
Image: Bust of Aristotle (St. Petersburg, Summer Garden). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Aristotle and the pandemic debates we aren’t having.
Crisis and Beholding
Posted on May 14, 2020
Image: Doctor seated between two coronavirus patients at the Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran, Iran. Via Wikimedia Commons.
The importance of learning to see beyond our preoccupations.
Our Once and Future Citizens
Posted on May 13, 2020
Image: Social distancing while voting in Bedford, MA; The Bedford Citizen.
How might the pandemic alter civic engagement?
No Longer an Extraordinary Event
Posted on May 11, 2020
Image: Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 particles; NIH/NIAID via flickr.
Our exploitive relationship to the natural order is greatly magnifying the possibility of spillover and increasing virus virulence.