(A bit long, but important. How millennials can benefit from the ideas of Epicurus) For young people leaving college since 2008 the prospects of a full-time job have been stressful, to say the least. Now, during this crisis, more than ever. Their grand-parent’s generation enjoyed almost full employment for the majority of their working lives, …
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It is common knowledge that the Education Department is run by a multi-millionaire devotee of scrapping everything to do with government if she has the power to do it. This includes privatizing the public school system, and de facto making education even more of a distant prospect than ever for minorities. By the way, she …
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To The Times ( London) The most lamentable thing about the epidemic is the almost uncontested surrender to the idea that the only meaning of human life lies with preserving human life. In the name of “keeping people safe”, the moribund die alone and the dead are buried without proper ceremony. Meanwhile, mothers give birth …
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Foreign cities are taking advantage of the crisis to re- think their cities. Mayors from Bogota to Budapest are exploiting the lack of parked cars by installing bike lanes in every likely spot. Athens is widening its sidewalks, enlarging public squares and banning traffic beneath the Acropolis. Melbourne is trying to put shopping , leisure …
Across Europe coronavirus is shining a harsh light on how we, as societies, treat our most vulnerable groups. In Spain, the army found abandoned old people dead in their care home beds. In France a former minister said residents in some care establishments had been shut in their rooms for six weeks after family visits …
