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J. Chase DavisFeaturedCurrent Politicshealth
How are we to consider public health when the health of the public officials themselves would not be recognizable to prior generations? Are we to simply stick our heads in the sand pretending that everything is normal? The CDC has […]
Daniel DormanFeaturedhealth
E.M. Forster wrote, “it is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source.” In Aspects of the Novel, Forester explains that while it is the work of the historian to deal with the external details […]
Bella GamboaFamilyFeaturedhealth
A tiny Bella, wearing a striped sweater and a mostly toothless grin. My parents, glowingly happy with their new baby. My three great-grandparents, seemingly ageless.
Matthew LoftusFeaturedhealth
The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up […]
Matthew LoftusFeaturedHealth and Medicinehealth
The call comes in the middle of my clinic session at the hospital in rural Kenya where I work. I apologize to the patient in front of me and answer my phone. It’s the emergency department at the hospital in […]
Brandon McGinleyFeaturedCurrent Politicshealth
The virus unsettles our sanitary security, but the effect is magnified by its jamming the economy. We must confront questions we thought were behind us.
Brad LittlejohnFeaturedCurrent Politicshealth
Christian freedom means love of neighbor. What does this mean in the face of pandemic and recession? The same as it has always meant.
E. J. HutchinsonFeaturedCurrent Politicshealth
We must do our work. We must do it in unfavorable conditions. We must do it before the specter of Death’s hooked and gnarled finger.
Jake MeadorEconomicshealth
The reality of local political authority? Si. The de facto abolition of the administrative state? No.
Guest WriterFeaturedembodimentHealth and Medicinehealth
The late capitalist economy has found many ways of turning the exploitation of human bodies into a booming business.
Matthew LoftusFeaturedHealth and Medicinehealth
Matthew Loftus reviews Kathryn Butler's new book which seeks to provide a Christian framework for thinking about end-of-life medical care.
Jake MeadorEconomicshealth
If you haven’t yet, please do read Anne Helen Peterson’s excellent Buzzfeed essay on millennials and burnout. My first reaction to the essay was to agree with nearly every word of it and pass it on to others. But after […]