Culture • Current Conversations All A’s and Still Flunking Life Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “I was just someone who shared notes, and now I’m implicated in this.” At least that is the way a Harvard undergraduate explains the cheating scandal that has recently rocked... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Art Imitating Life, Life Imitating Art Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Art imitating life, life imitating art. Sometimes it is not so easy to tell which is which. Yesterday I had an email from a friend whose company is making a... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Remembering June 4–For every human heart and for all of history Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read The political costs of self-deception, one more day. June 4 is now iconic, at least for those who pay attention to the way the world is and ought to be.... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Pro-bot, or No-bot? Jay Bilsborrow | 3 min read Not long ago I had a bad habit of asking my friends ridiculous hypothetical questions just for amusement’s sake, which probably indicated that I didn’t have anything better to talk... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Making Peace with Proximate Justice, Again Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “It’s just not right.” All day long in all sorts of different ways we respond to the world with words that try to make sense of what we see and... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Implications of Empathy Dr. Steven Garber | < 1 min read People who know me well know that I spend much of my life working on one question, viz. can we know the world, and still love the world? Or to... Continue Reading
