by Jack Cheng | May 29, 2013 | The Public Humanist
I was a Creon until I realized that it put me against Antigone. Now I’m not so sure. Last week, listening to public radio, I heard about the protests against the burial of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. I nodded in agreement as various voices denounced the alleged Boston...
by Juno Lamb | Jun 4, 2013 | The Public Humanist
It’s that time again. If you read, if you have a weakness for shiny stacks of paperbacks in airports, or the carousel of sale books at the library—they’re only a dollar!—then you know what happens. You stack a few sideways in the space between...
by Brian Glyn Williams | Jun 10, 2013 | The Public Humanist
On May 22nd Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the CIA has carried out the extrajudicial drone assassination of four Americans since 2009 (when one includes the one American killed by a drone in Yemen in 2002 that brings the number to five US citizens who...
by Mary Wilson | Jun 12, 2013 | The Public Humanist
The topic that excited most comment in President Obama’s May 23rd speech is the restrictions on the use of drones to carry out targeted killings. Those both strongly in favor of the use of drones and those strongly against it criticized the speech. The former...
by Jennifer Johnston | Jun 24, 2013 | The Public Humanist
In the spring of 1997 I moved to Massachusetts and began graduate studies in studio art, film and photography at Harvard University Extension. A few days after finding an apartment in Cambridge, I began exploring my new “neighbor,” Mount Auburn–a...
