Protest and Spectacle in Lafayette Square
Protest and spectacle are not merely symbols.
Two Cheers for Assisted Living
Posted on June 17, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: US Air Force security forces personnel works with a member of the Colorado National Guard to test patients for coronavirus at a Colorado nursing home, June 2020; US Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. John Rohrer; flickr.com.
The COVID crisis has changed our perceptions of assisted living communities, perhaps permanently.
Faulkner as Futurist
Posted on June 9, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Seven Springs, North Carolina; via flickr.com
Faulkner’s treatment of the past means much for the nature of our future.
Closing Time
by
Clare Coffey
Posted on June 4, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Drug addict on London street; Jeff Gilbert/Alamy Stock Photo.
Two new books discuss the extremes of the American economy.
The Uniqueness of the Here and Now
Posted on June 2, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Walter Benjamin and Patti Smith.
The solitude of sickness is not a waste of time but rather a compression of it, a bundle the size of a pill bottle.
The Price of Freedom
Posted on May 21, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: A grocery store cashier in Stamford, Connecticut; Tyler Sizemore, Connecticut Magazine.
The point of reopening is not to free voluntary workers but to place more into the category of “mandatory worker.”
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