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Source: Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay Each day, reporters update us as to the number of deaths from COVID-19 . It is easy to get caught up in tracking the numbers. As of May 1, 2020, the total number of cases diagnosed in the US surpassed 1 million; the total number of US deaths passed 63,000 as of this writing. For context, that’s roughly the same number of deaths of Americans during the 20 year span of the Vietnam War. Each loss is one part of the devastating effects of this disease known as COVID-19. Each of the 63,000 individuals lost to date has left behind family, friends, and co-workers who are grieving them. Most adults are familiar with the stages of grief , thanks to the work of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler. The simplest model identifies five stages of grief: Denial and isolation, Anger , Bargaining, Depression , and lastly, Acceptance (Kubler-Ross, 2014).  More recently, Kessler has suggested a sixth stage, Meaning (Kessler, 2019). If these concepts … [Read more...] about Helping Children Grieve

For some pundits, the economy, and its structural failures, are central to explaining the emergence of anti-democratic tendencies that came to a head on January 6. Others prefer to interpret the divide among Americans as a matter of tribal identity . The Economic Inequity Explanation Clearly, we live in a society where the rich are becoming progressively richer while the situation of the middle classes and the poor remains stagnant, or deteriorates. This grievance animated the “Occupy” movement of 2011. Most economists attribute rising inequality to impersonal economic forces, such as globalization, and the digital economy that creates huge fortunes for Internet companies. Others interpret inequality as the result of a malign tyranny of the affluent. Political philosopher Michael Sandel argues that although we appear to live in a meritocratic society, the system is rigged in favor of the affluent (1). Those who get accepted at elite universities generally obtain good … [Read more...] about Post Mortem on American Democracy