CROSSCURRENTS AT 70 AND BEYOND: An Editor’s Introduction

With this, we have also noted the impact of technology on our lives, the importance of evidence-based public policy, and the need for health care accessibility in both urban and rural areas. [...]there is the global climate change crisis that constantly looms in the background, a cataclysmic event so enormous that most of us cannot really grasp it. Among other terrible components, 2020 was the hottest year on record around the globe (tied with 2016), Australia's wildfires from the year are estimated to have killed or displaced three billion animals, and California's wildfires are contributing to the worst air quality in decades throughout the west coast. [...]we are updating and extending our longtime, unofficial motto which read "the wisdom of the heart and the life of the mind,"2 to suggest, Crosscurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. Because the critical issues of today-racism, the environment, gender and sex disparities, economic imbalances-are so resolutely physical we understand that hearts and minds are essential, but they will accomplish nothing apart from bodies rooted in spaces and times. [...]to go along with these changes, we have also launched a brand-new website at https://www.aprilonline.org/.