Corona Radiata: A New Poem
A new poem by Fady Joudah
A new poem by Fady Joudah
From the early days of the pandemic, Steven Shapin on the ways COVID-19 requires us to care for each other and our communities.
This is the first of a series of essays on the pandemic, the rest of which will appear regularly in The Philosophical Salon, edited by Michael...
When coronavirus became a thing, I remember thinking first, narcissistically, Oh, f**k, here come the racist taunts and slurs. My hindsight was not...
Today […] as never before, a sound immigration and naturalization system is essential to the preservation of our way of life, because that system is...
It feels like just yesterday that we began to hear the ominous term, “social distancing,” with its quasi-public health connotation — stay away from...
On Friday, March 20, I called my father to congratulate him on the Persian New Year. It felt gloomy, to put it mildly. We used to do it in person...
My mother said her meds made her fat. She’d only take them when she thought she was about to die, unable to breathe, constricted as if her ribs had...
My cohort of over-65 people are supposed to be enjoying the new Age of Longevity. But do some younger people still associate us older folks with...
Is the coronavirus the end of the world as we know it? I was always told the world was going to end. In 1971, when I was a kid, George, the leader of...