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Yearly Archives: 2020

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  • 2 Dec 2020
    Manya Lempert

    Tragedy, Art of Dissent

    Think of the lies. Climate change is a hoax. Colonization benefits the colonized. Rape is your fault. Grief is your fault. Mortality is your fault. Tragedy exposes these lies. I argue in my book that modern writers like Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, and Samuel Beckett thought of Greek tragedy in this way – […]

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  • 1 Dec 2020
    Jennifer Huberman

    A Crisis of Confidence or Rebirth of Conviction? Transhumanists and their critics in the Age of a Global Pandemic

    As Covid 19 has swept the globe, leaving over a million causalities in its wake, it has generated a profound crisis of confidence. Citizens throughout the world question their governments’ abilities to protect them. Everyday life has become akin to a game of Russian roulette, where we leave our homes knowing that we exist only […]

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  • 1 Dec 2020
    Liv Feijen

    Humanitarianism or Immigration Control – or Both?

    The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented battle between values and pragmatism, and between humanitarianism and immigration control in large parts of the world. Asylum as an institution has always been characterized by a balancing of the political and pragmatic values of the State, on one hand, and moral values based on compassion on the […]

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  • 27 Nov 2020
    Christopher L.-H. Huang

    Nerve and Muscle: the final common pathway to action

    “The roads that lead man to knowledge are as wondrous as that knowledge itself.” ― Arthur Koestler (1959). The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe. London: Hutchinson. In biology, the initiation and execution of movement form the substrate of all action fundamental particularly to animal life. The recently published Cambridge University Press title […]

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  • 26 Nov 2020
    Keh-Ming Lin

    Wounded Healers as Agents of Change

    Who could have predicted so many “unprecedented” catastrophes would descend upon us in just one year? On top of the seemingly never-ending wars and recurrent natural disasters, we have been ambushed by a stealthy and deadly virus, forced to confront deep-rooted racial tension and social inequity, and paralyzed by divisive, contesting ideologies threatening to tear […]

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  • 26 Nov 2020
    Liz Jackson

    Can Feeling Good Make People Morally Good?

    The rise of COVID has exacerbated a recent sense of global crisis, with economic, political, and environmental aspects. Individuals experience such pressures as personal challenges to well-being. These conditions are also a factor in schools teaching for social and emotional learning, character education, and other lessons about attitudes and feelings. Such education aims to help […]

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  • 25 Nov 2020
    James L. Perry

    (Re)Discovering Our “Better Angels”

    What do the United Nation’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, free and fair elections, and secure homelands share in common? It is this: achieving these extraordinary ends depends on committed public servants doing their jobs, day in and day out, sometimes in the face of significant challenges. The special disposition of public servants to put others […]

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  • 25 Nov 2020
    Vincenzo Penteriani, Mario Melletti

    The Relationship between Bears and Humans

    The relationship between bears and humans dates back tens of thousands of years, during which time we have competed with bears for shelter and food. Our strong link with bears is attested to by the Neanderthal burial of ‘Le Regourdou’, in France, where the skeleton of a Neanderthal in a foetal position was found under […]

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