Holiday Greetings from the KIE Acting Director

This has been a very difficult year for all of us. Bioethics has been at the very center of the pandemic, and bioethics has been forced anew to confront issues of racial injustice in healthcare. We are working harder than ever and interacting in unfamiliar ways. The nights are longer and the days are colder, but there is hope for us all. We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the pandemic; having been conscientitized, the healthcare system may be on its way, finally, to righting long-standing injustices. Despite the gravity of these issues and the seriousness of the ethical concerns, we will lose our focus if we do not maintain a spirit of hope and a sense of good cheer. That is one of the core messages of the religious feasts that so many of us celebrate at this time of year. Light shines in the darkness.

On behalf of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics faculty and staff, I therefore wish you all the best this holiday season can bring and, in a spirit of good humor and continued commitment to the good and the right offer,
the right offer, the following message of holiday cheer.

Daniel P. Sulmasy