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Themes of work and employment in “The Americans”
FX’s “The Americans,” the one-hour drama series featuring a husband-and-wife team as deep-cover Soviet spies operating out of a Washington D.C. suburb during the 1980s, came to the close of its superb...
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Academic institutions, abuse allegations, and organizational ethics
Writing for Inside Higher Ed, Greg Toppo asks why colleges and universities continue to deal with significant cases of sexual abuse and related mistreatment despite well-publicized, recent stories...
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Summer work is mostly about writing
My writing workspaces are not nearly as ornate! (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; photo by DY) With spring semester final exams and papers graded, another academic summer begins. I understand...
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Ruminating, problem solving, and coping in the midst of work abuse
In an article recently published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (abstract here), researchers Abbas Firoozabadi, Sjir Uitdewilligen, and Fred R. H. Zijlstra pose their key question in...
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In praise of thoughtful dissenters
(image courtesy of quote fancy.com) In a 1954 broadcast critical of red-baiting U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, celebrated journalist Edward R. Murrow urged upon his listeners that “We must not confuse...
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Is incivility a just response to cruelty?
Is it right to disrupt a prominent public official’s otherwise quiet dinner at a restaurant, even if she is the co-architect of a governmental policy that many claim is cruel and immoral? It’s not a...
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A story for our times
So here’s the short version: A woman who objects to an eight-year-old girl selling bottled water on the street is filmed apparently calling the police on the young kid. The video goes viral, and the...
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