The Great Conversation: Prudence
The Great Conversation Prudence By Gabriel Blanchard Prudence, as C. S. Lewis put it, is “practical common sense”; but that hardly constitutes material for philosophy. Does it? At …
The Great Conversation: Labor
The Great Conversation: Labor By Gabriel Blanchard We know Labor Day as a popular holiday, but what exactly is it celebrating? Labor—or as we more often call it, …
Steinbeck: Grief and Beauty
Steinbeck: Grief and Beauty By Gabriel Blanchard The moral and atmospheric power of Steinbeck’s writing has justly won him an enduring place in the American canon. One of …
The Great Conversation: Infinity
The Great Conversation: Infinity By Gabriel Blanchard Naturally enough for finite minds like ours, infinity is a tricky concept. Like eternity, infinity is an idea we can articulate …
Husserl: The Science of Consciousness
Husserl: The Science of Consciousness By Gabriel Blanchard Few schools of thought have proven as fruitful or varied as phenomenology. Born in 1859 in the north of the …
The Great Conversation: Game
The Great Conversation: Game By Gabriel Blanchard What is something so unimportant doing on our list of great ideas? Though not present on Mortimer Adler’s list of great …
A Doubtful Martyr
A Doubtful Martyr: A Review of The Power and the Glory By Gabriel Blanchard Faith and doubt are usually thought of as opposites. But what if faith and …
Lee: The Unity of Man
Lee: The Unity of Man By Gabriel Blanchard Few authors offer us a more straightforward moral, or one with greater power. Very few names on our author bank …
The Great Conversation: Tyranny
The Great Conversation: Tyranny By Gabriel Blanchard Tyranny is one of the oldest problems in western thought—and practice. What is tyranny? It is agreed by almost all the …
Hippocrates: The Founder of Western Medicine
Hippocrates: The Founder of Western Medicine By Gabriel Blanchard What we call modern medical science stretches far further back than we may think. Like Homer or the composer …
