We’ll be debating the Affordable Care Act for the final. Three questions: Is the Affordable Care Act constitutional? Will the Affordable Care Act reduce health care costs? Will the Affordable Care Act improve health care in the United States?
Philosopher Dien Ho suggests that life as a zombie might help us achieve some of our aims: In some respects, the idea that becoming a zombie is a bad thing borders on a platitude. Zombies wander around in constant hunger in a semi-decomposed state. Their actions are guided entirely by impulses. They seem to lack […]
On Walt Whitman’s birthday, a little poem: And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated: I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain, Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea, Upward to heaven, […]
Professor Christy Wampole notes that the essay form has become very personal: Essayism consists in a self-absorbed subject feeling around life, exercising what Theodor Adorno called the “essay’s groping intention,” approaching everything tentatively and with short attention, drawing analogies between the particular and the universal. Banal, everyday phenomena — what we eat, things upon which […]
Anyone who has read even a little bit of science fiction is familiar with the idea of one of the most ominous threats to space exploration: the idea that an astronaut will lose his mind and attack other astronauts or destroy the mission itself. It’s a real enough threat that NASA is developing technology to […]