by Robert S. Cox | Oct 30, 2009 | The Public Humanist
Not so long ago, I picked up a copy of Philip Gura's new book on Transcendentalism — that brief flowering of the New England mind — and it started me thinking again about that most American tension, how self and society articulate. As a nation, we have...
by Andrea Assaf | Nov 3, 2009 | The Public Humanist
As a child of the 1970s, like many in my generation, I have grown up somewhat in the political shadow of the decade before me. For the more conservative members of my family, the 1950s were a great source of nostalgia (especially in the ‘80s); but for my...
by Jack Cheng | Nov 9, 2009 | The Public Humanist
Another post for the Public Humanist! This time explaining why I am not a public humanist: Recently, I worked on a project to develop a website for a PBS series called Keeping Score, a production of the San Francisco Symphony that presents classical music in the...
by Julie Mallozzi | Nov 18, 2009 | The Public Humanist
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a memorial service for Sokhorn Sem, the mother of one of the subjects of my film Monkey Dance. The service was held at the Khmer Buddhist Temple in Chelmsford, Massachusetts (Wat Triratanaram). Sokhorn’s battle with breast...
by Charlie Lotspeich | Nov 23, 2009 | The Public Humanist
This essay addresses working and economic conditions in Holyoke during the 1870s and 1880s as the city acquired industrial stature and some paper and textile workers attempted to organize. But it starts from the perspective of a paper maker who experienced the final...
