I attended a fascinating lecture by Lucinda Franks, during which she said there have been 6,000 suicides of Iraqi veterans - that’s 2,000 more than all the battle-related deaths. She says the Feds don’t keep those figures, and you have to build it from the statistics the states keep. If it’s true, this is a staggering number.
I’m usually skeptical of higher-ed trend stories like this one. But this point was made several times:
“…in an era in which people change careers frequently, philosophy makes sense.”
You could say that about all of the humanities. But you don’t often hear it.
Work from home! Be your own boss! Drop dead!
Once again, promises that new technology would make work easier didn’t work out that way. Instead, a few people work 24/7 and cash in; the rest toil for peanuts.
Call Giuliano Ferrara Italy’s Christopher Hitchens.
“One obvious question is whether Mr. Ferrara is inching his way toward the Church as if it were the last best hope for a politics of ideas.”
From the Beyond Parody files, which the New York art and architecture worlds regularly replenish - a house that defies death.