Tìm hiểu y học hien 1 Thỉnh thoảng có những trẻ em nhắc đến kiếp trước của mình từng là một người sống ở một nơi chốn khác. Đa số các bác sĩ sẽ coi chuyện này như sản phẩm của trí tưởng tượng của trẻ con và không làm gì cả. Và thật vậy đa số lúc lớn lên chừng trên dưới 10 tuổi các em sẽ quên những...
By Irina Dumitrescu is the author of The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge, 2018). She is working on a book about imperfection. AS I WRITE THESE words, a significant part of humanity finds itself in the curious state of “social isolation.” The term carries the paradoxical inanity of a college advertising tagline and is as close to the truth. We are not truly isolated. Many of us now spend most...
For hundreds of years, doctors thought nostalgia was a disease. Now, it’s a name for our modern condition NOSTALGIA HAS an air of total irreconcilability. There is the feeling the word describes, of course: a fundamentally impossible yearning, a longing to go back even as we are driven ceaselessly forward, pushed further away from our desire even as we sit contemplating it. But it’s the actual feeling, too, that ceaselessly...
By Anil Gomes The day before the shutdown I went into our daughters’ school to teach philosophy. A number of teachers were absent, either because they had underlying health conditions or because they lived with people who did. Many of the children were absent too. The teachers were busy photocopying worksheets, trying to figure out what would be required of them in the coming days and weeks. I went in to...
FOR THOSE OF us old enough to remember an era when we didn’t account for our existence on social media, when we could attend a dinner party without being tagged like a shot deer on someone’s Instagram story, when privacy was respected and deeper meanings had room to quietly take root and bloom, it is no surprise to see artists flinching from the din of publicity. How can we really...