Erika Triantafilo says that while Tara the hero cat had never been quite so heroic before this week – famously body slamming a neighbor’s dog who viciously attacked her 4-year-old son Jeremy – she was not completely surprised by Tara’s protective actions. “Tara has known Jeremy since before he was born,” Triantafilo says. “She used …
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Brittney Cooper writes: [T]he growing national conversation, buttressed by demands from students, that college professors place trigger warnings on their syllabi to alert students to uncomfortable and traumatic material gives me great concern. While I care about my own academic freedom and the ways that trigger warnings impede my ability to teach course materials in …
Learning is about rethinking our views, which is incompatible with censorship Read More »
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We don’t intellectually embrace a society where the privileged few get to enjoy the advantages of leisure and wealth while the masses toil on their behalf. Yet that’s what a sell-out of the liberal arts entails. For the most part, the wealthy in this country continue to pay increasingly exorbitant tuition to private prep schools, …
Liberal arts and the humanities aren’t just for the elite Read More »
Unless you want children – which can also be mechanical – a person can live without meaningful or loving sex. But, who wants to? While there have been many theorists working in the field, such as Masters and Johnson, Helen Singer Kaplan, John Bancroft and John Gottman, the core of erotic intimacy comes down to …
From basic biology to early childhood attachment, the roots of eroticism are complex Read More »
D years a mystical tale of 13th century Farid Ud-Din Attar tells us how the hoopoe has decided one day to bring all the birds to invite them to a long journey, after which they must meet the Simurgh, the king of birds. This adventure leads them through seven valleys seven spiritual places, which are …
International Sacred Music Festival, Fes, Morocco Read More »