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Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It.

To Live Is an Act of Courage

The crisis of suicide among our soldiers and veterans must end. Here’s how we can stop it

by Jennifer Michael Hecht | Thursday, September 05, 2013

To Flee or Not to Flee

The stigma of failed courage

by Jennifer Michael Hecht | Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Words and Music

Two ways of thinking about what our brains can do

by Jennifer Michael Hecht | Saturday, September 01, 2007

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”