By Sharon M. Meagher, Ph.D., Marymount Manhattan College I joined a multidisciplinary global network of researchers, The Global Pandemic Network and recently participated in its webinar and launch of working groups on “COVID-19 and Cities, Building Resilience on...
Shortly after I moved to New York some years ago, I found myself at a demonstration against two police officers who were accused of rape. They had reportedly been called to assist an inebriated young woman, but one of them raped her while the other served as lookout....
In ‘Welcome to the Agora’, JS Biehl tells us of his first brush with philosophy. It’s a lovely image, the image of this 10-year old boy walking down the street and having a great philosophical revelation. I imagine him wearing a baseball cap and whistling like Ron...
I was no more than ten years old when, walking home from school, I had a philosophical epiphany: everything exists. The thought struck with the force of a revelation and was utterly unlike any previous experience of learning some new thing (even something...
