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Empathy

Hurrah for the Plaza

An appreciation for the diversity of life

Nobody Knows

When I was eighteen, I spent several months working as a bus girl at a diner. It was a cheerful-looking place, facing San Francisco Bay. The kitchen was L-shaped: the…

The New New Narcissism

by Kristin Dombek,

By Kristin Dombek, from The Selfishness of Others, a monograph that was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dombek is the recipient of a 2013 Rona Jaffe award.

The Separating Sickness

by Rebecca Solnit,

Five hundred family members of leprosy patients sue Japan; Rebecca Solnit explores how leprosy teaches empathy

The Devil’s Bait

by Leslie Jamison,

Symptoms, signs, and the riddle of Morgellons

Beyond the Book

by Mark Kingwell,

By Mark Kingwell, from a keynote speech delivered in May at the annual meeting of the Writers’ Union of Canada and published in the Ottawa Citizen. Kingwell is a professor…

Little Green Men

by S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache,

From “Human Engineering and Climate Change,” by S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache, published last year in Ethics, Policy & Environment. A widely cited report by the United Nations…

The Separating Sickness

by Rebecca Solnit,

How leprosy teaches empathy

Servile disobedience

by Thomas Frank,

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Hurrah for the Plaza

Nobody Knows

The New New Narcissism

The Separating Sickness

The Devil’s Bait

Beyond the Book

Little Green Men

The Separating Sickness

Servile disobedience

February 2011

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