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Using the Past to Inform the Present, Part 1
How history can illuminate our understanding of drug and alcohol use.
The Two Americas
Economic shifts, cultural rifts and emerging political fault lines.
Cancer and the Human Condition, Part 2
Further reflections on how the humanities can help us process and cope with acute illness.
Cancer and the Human Condition, Part 1
How the humanities can help us process and cope with acute illness.
How Campuses Might Become More Dynamic, Responsive and Financially Sustainable
Substack provides a potential blueprint for university outreach and faculty empowerment.
Academic Freedom With and Without Academic Responsibility
We need to overcome the hyperindividualism that is distorting higher education.
The Last Chapter
How secular societies make peace with death in a godless age.
Human Beings Are the Storytelling Animal
Narrative’s role in the construction of meaning, identity and morality.