Sam Ben-Meir: The theology of pandemics
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Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film The Seventh Seal is set in medieval Sweden, as the bubonic plague ravages the countryside.
Search Results for New York City
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Shenandoah Conservatory presents live stream performance
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Shenandoah Conservatory partners with The Farm Theater to present a Facebook live stream performance of “The Hierarchy of Fish” at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 19.
COVID-19, and where the race for the White House is headed
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The polls, and the current conventional wisdom, would have Joe Biden measuring the drapes in the Oval Office a few months hence. When actually, and you don’t want to hear this, we’re headed toward a landslide for Donald Trump that will rival Nixon-McGovern in 1972.
A month in: Where are we with COVID-19?
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More than 22,000 U.S. deaths have been attributed to COVID-19, which means, what, exactly, in terms of where we are, a month into the national shutdown?
Sam Ben-Meir: Social crisis and the public use of reason
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A crisis such as this one demands that we exercise what the philosopher Immanuel Kant called the ‘public use of reason.’
Dr. Fauci joins Basketball and Beyond with Coach K
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is today’s guest on Basketball and Beyond with Coach K, the weekly Sirius/XM radio show hosted by Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski.
Draconian lockdown powers: Slippery slope from handwashing to house arrest
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Just because we’re fighting an unseen enemy in the form of a virus doesn’t mean we have to relinquish every shred of our humanity, our common sense, or our freedoms to a nanny state that thinks it can do a better job of keeping us safe.
Evidence-based national direction lacking in COVID-19 response
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When it comes to mitigating the effects of COVID-19 in America, President Trump has made his opinion clear: states need to do more.
Expert: ‘We’re not testing as much as we should be’ for COVID-19’s spread
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A Virginia Tech professor who specializes in statistical modeling and disease surveillance says the United States has to do a better job of testing for the novel coronavirus if the country is to be successful in mitigating the virus’ spread.
Aren’t we pretty much already on lockdown?
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I’m having a hard time figuring out what else most of us can do to lock ourselves down any more than we already are.
