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-8 posts tagged "Humanity"
Joy Agwu | Monday, December 4, 2023
Editor’s note: This column includes spoilers for ”The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” “This world, it’s dark, this world, it’s scary / I’ve taken some hits so no wonder I’m wary / It’s why I need you / You’re as pure as the driven snow.” – Lucy Gray from “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”
Meghan Lange | Friday, October 13, 2023
Students and staff packed into the Hesburgh Center for International Studies Thursday afternoon to hear from a panel of experts on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Professor Ebrahim Moosa opened the panel by describing how Palestinian guerrilla militants of Hamas “wreaked tremendous havoc” in Gaza and Israel. He said the militants killed “many, many civilians.” In the
Ty Harrington | Monday, September 18, 2023
On Friday afternoon Notre Dame hosted Ed Yong, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and bestselling author. Yong’s lecture titled “Can stories of science create a more empathetic world?” was the second event in the MVP Fridays lecture series hosted by the Center for Social Concerns. A science journalist since 2006, Yong has covered a broad
Matthew Williams | Thursday, September 7, 2017
How often do you hear the words: “How are you?” A friend who recently counted was asked this question seven times on a single walk from DeBartolo to Cavanaugh, and she responded “good” every time. I think this is problematic. You’ll want to know why. Before I explain why, though, we have to agree on
Letter to the Editor | Friday, October 28, 2016
As human beings, it is natural for us to be curious. At some point in our evolutionary history, we crossed an intellectual Rubicon, forever fating ourselves to perceive more than just what we needed for survival and reproduction. The result was endless confusion about the many mysteries of the world, and equally as many attempts
Susan Zhu | Tuesday, August 30, 2016
A month ago, my friend Megh emailed me with an important question. Megh, who was working in a South African school this past summer, had started a project called Words for the World. She asked the people she interacted with on a daily basis (many of them homeless), “If you could say one thing to
Devon Chenelle | Monday, April 18, 2016
Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “A Brave New World” is increasingly found to track more closely to 21st century life’s worst features than does the other great dystopian vision, “1984,” as Huxley’s portrayal of social control by consent supersedes in contemporary relevance Orwell’s depiction of steel-booted totalitarian dictatorship. Though the portions of Huxley’s nightmarish landscape most often
Letter to the Editor | Friday, April 11, 2014
When I was little, I hated math. It was unfamiliar and didn’t make sense to me. My father, a chemical engineer, was assigned the task of helping me understand the concepts. Although my father is a man of great patience, I always seemed to try that patience when we would work through problems together. The