“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know,” Thoreau wrote as he considered what it takes to see unblinded by preconception. “The art of seeing has to be learned,” Marguerite Duras sang a century later from the pages…
But Hasim Rahman Jr. has amassed quite the record himself. At age 31 he’s now a 12-1 fighter. His sole loss came recently via knockout at the hands of the undefeated James McKenzie Morrison earlier this year in April. Morrison…
One problem that I have with this “Textbook View” is that it assumes that “deontological theories are best understood in contrast to consequentialist ones” (Alexander & Moore 2020). I, however, believe that deontology is compatible with act-consequentialism—something that Jake Zuehl…
Ironheart comes to the streaming service in fall 2023, Blade lands in theaters Nov. 3, 2023, while Agatha: Coven of Chaos will arrive on Disney Plus in winter 2023 or 2024. Echo and season 2 of Loki land on Disney…
There is violence in this: the body breaking the glassy surface, crashing through it, the blasting noise in one’s ears — and the feeling on one’s skin, of one’s skin and nerves, down to the bones. It is a sensation…
It is marvelous the quickness with which nature responds. Where there was once little, we have abundance. The swampy hog lot below the Big House had been transformed into a garden with a clear spring stream running through it that…
What’s happening Because the US outbreak of monkeypox is so new, there’s no data yet on exactly how effective the vaccines will be, according to the CDC. Effectiveness of Jynneos against monkeypox is supported by animal studies, the agency says. And though…
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide,” Albert Camus wrote in one of the most provocative opening sentences in all of literature, unspooling into one of the most daring works of philosophy. “Judging whether life…
“Those payments are still within the payment terms,” he said, “so it’s not late payments, it’s just extended days of bills outstanding by a small amount” of people. McElfresh added that this level of delays still “does not exceed what…
In his memoir, Born to Run (public library), Bruce Springsteen writes about his father’s “long, drawn-out depressions,” often so debilitating that he could not rise from bed for days, and about his own tumble toward the edge of the abyss…