by Bob Meagher | May 21, 2009 | The Public Humanist
A selection of portraits from Matt Mitchell’s 100 Faces of War project is on display now through June 13 at the Springfield Armory Museum National Historic Site. Bob Meagher, who teaches comparative religion and other humanities courses at Hampshire College,...
by Rachel Zucker | Sep 8, 2009 | The Public Humanist
One rainy day this summer, I called a childhood friend to say, “Anne Frank would have been eighty years old today.” She burst into tears and we talked about our experience, now two decades ago, reading Anne’s diary in class. Since we have been...
by Tyler E. Boudreau | May 26, 2009 | The Public Humanist
In his recent essay, Bob Meagher demonstrates through literature something I have come to understand through my personal life over the past several years—the importance of the war story to an individual soldier’s healing process. But the war story holds...
by Hayley Wood | Sep 10, 2009 | The Public Humanist
About a year ago I saw the Into the Wild, Sean Penn’s filmic treatment of the eponymous book by Jon Krakauer about Chris McCandless, a boy my age who left his family and all earthly security at the age of 21 to pursue a dream of living alone in the Alaskan...
by John Hill | May 28, 2009 | The Public Humanist
Pulling our military out of Iraq has stimulated many thoughts and memories. I remember a candlelight vigil against the invasion of Iraq on the steps of Church of the Presidents in Quincy. This was only one of many such vigils in cities and towns throughout...
