western culture

June 17, 2021

Ethics: How technology and medicine has changed the context of death

Every living thing eventually dies. It is not just the inevitability of death but the nature of our awareness of…
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Travel

April 15, 2021

Declining sperm counts and the coming ‘Year Omega’

In the 1992 dystopian novel, The Children of Men, P. D. James tells the story of a world where no child…
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Culture Watch

August 8, 2019

Hospitality in an age of lonely lives

Piles of laundry, yard work, hectic schedules, napping kids. Let’s face it—there’s never a perfect time to invite others into our…
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