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The Examined Life

In Tufts Magazine

  • Pacux cemetary wall
    Denying an Atrocity

    Yes, there was a genocide in Guatemala during the 1980s. I know because I witnessed its horrors

  • Illustration of human-centered design
    First Person

    Companies fail when they design products without considering the human beings who will use them

  • Grace Talusan
    The Yaya Sisterhood

    Returning to the Philippines, the country of my birth, I finally looked like everyone else. Which was not the same as fitting in.

  • Illustration of man under olive tree
    The Giving Trees

    Inheriting an olive orchard seemed like the last thing I needed as my entire life was falling apart

  • Collage of 80s pop culture images
    Just Say No

    Help! I grew up in the 80s...

Tufts Now

  • Mina Kaddis in church
    When God Came Calling

    Mina Kaddis, D06, was content in his private dental practice—then his bishop had a request

  • Why Are There Minds?

    In his latest book, philosopher Daniel Dennett answers the central philosophical question