The author of the new book ‘Attention and Alienation’ wonders if the online world can ever become a place where kindness and human flourishing are the prevailing ethos.
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In parts of Nigeria and Mozambique, the central governments and state institutions are either absent or unable to address the dire socio-economic conditions and related instability.
The Menu’s real horror comes from the ways food, eating, and cooking lose their carnal pleasures under capitalism.
There is a common misconception that family estrangement is a particular event or outcome. Rather, it’s often based on ongoing issues.
Shakespeare understood that our fate depends on fostering the humility and empathy that dethrones money and transforms it into something we use to advance the common good.
While clear-eyed about the country’s injustices, Melville never succumbed to cynicism. On the author’s bicentennial, American readers could use a dose of his ability to fuse realism with idealism.
In a time of populist momentum to ‘build a wall’, your front fence says more than you think.
Emile Durkheim helped to lay the foundations of sociological thought and theory. He spoke of our current condition as being influenced by social structures and institutions.
Marx believed that exploitation of workers and of nature went hand-in-hand.
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