by David Mednicoff | May 7, 2011 | The Public Humanist
I get that Usama Bin Laden’s death is a big deal, and mostly a good thing. I was around for the 9/11/01 attacks, had friends at the World Trade Center and Pentagon that day (thankfully none hurt), and watched with reasonably mature eyes the sense of tragedy here...
by Mary Wilson | May 12, 2011 | The Public Humanist
My students sum up what Arabs want in one word: dignity. I’m writing from the American University of Sharjah where I’m teaching for the semester. My students and colleagues are a fair cross section of the region and of the population of the United Arab...
by Ron Lamothe | May 16, 2011 | The Public Humanist
Over the past few years I have developed the bad habit of falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV. And like many bad habits, I suppose, the longer I do it, the harder it is to break. Indeed, by this point it is so ingrained into my nightly regimen that I now...
by Martin Newhouse | May 19, 2011 | The Public Humanist
When the First World War broke out, Henry James wrote a letter that lamented the sad truth that the event revealed to him about European civilization: The plunge of civilization into the abyss of blood and darkness by the wanton fiat of those 2 infamous autocrats is a...
by Brian Fairley | May 23, 2011 | The Public Humanist
It’s one of the first nice days in April, and I find myself in a familiar place: walking with Stacy Klein through the grounds of a former dairy farm in Ashfield, lingering by a stream or pointing out features of the landscape – picturing to ourselves herds...
