Introducing Our Spring Issue
What does dominion “over every living thing that moves on the earth” mean? Brute sovereignty and ruthless exploitation? Or thoughtful stewardship and responsible cultivation?
All Work, No Ethic
Posted on November 5, 2018
in THR Web Features
Image: Office workers, Australia, 1963; flickr.com
Many office workers aren’t tasked with anything useful to do.
All for the Now—or the World Well Lost?
Why should teaching the past matter?
The Art of the Possible
by
B.D. McClay
Posted on June 28, 2018
in THR Web Features
Image: Highway 170 through Big Bend National Park, Texas; flickr.
A zero sum reality, in which every win is someone else’s loss, exists in a constant state of crisis.
Introducing the Summer issue
Identities—what are they good for?
Minority Report
Posted on March 28, 2018
in THR Web Features
Image: The poster for Alexander Korda’s 1936 film adaptation of Things to Come by H.G. Wells.
While prognosticating about the future can be liberating, it is also a cautionary tale.
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