Classic books like Jane Eyre took on new meanings while the lengths of others made us aware of our mortality.
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The promised benefits of lethal injection – a quick, painless death – have never come true. There’s not even agreement about which drugs are best for executions.
COVID-19 is a plague not merely on the happiness that comes with health and wealth, but also on the meaning in our lives.
Western literature began with a plague and ever since, writers have been using pandemics to comment on society.
On 7 February 1946 we find J Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, writing a letter to “Special Agent in Charge” at the New York field office, to draw his attention to one ALBERT CANUS, who is “reportedly…
A student came up to me after class the other day and said, “So what is this ‘Becksistentialism’ all about then?” I want to begin to answer that question by defining the negative: Sir Alex Ferguson is…
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