Virtue ethics, psychiatric treatment, and higher education.
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THIS WEEK’S READINGS
• Examining the legacy of Occupy Wall Street. (The Point)
• How Thucydides’ analysis of war “identifies a vice common to all states.” (Aeon)
• “Surveying the wreckage of public higher education” in America. (Hedgehog Review)
• A novel that “captures the last gasp of pre-Internet counterculture.” (The Nation)
• Remembering Howard Zinn. (Guardian)
• “Ted Hughes as a ghost, a lost spirit looking back to his childhood, still seeking.” (Literary Hub)
• “How Harry Belafonte made an LP that topped the charts for 31 weeks, outsold Elvis, and transformed a dockworker’s lament into an anthem the world still sings.” (Broadcast)
• On “virtue ethics” and what Mother Teresa got wrong. (Psyche)
• “Those left behind by the failed community health centers, those still suffering the after-effects of de-institutionalization, and those who had come, inevitably, to see psychiatric medication itself as little more than a subtler version of the old asylum shackles began coalescing into a loose and radical movement.” (The Lamp Magazine)
THIS WEEK IN OBITUARIES
Vincent Pastore, Janet Howell, Kay Granger, Vicki Wickham, Nirmal Purja, Elizabeth Smith, Monty Roberts, Thomas S. Hines, Olga Soffer, Mary de Rachewiltz, Sydney Towle, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Lloyd Robertson, William Orbit, John Douglas, and at least 40 people killed by security forces during peaceful protests in Kashmir.
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