Rousseau: Of Savages and States
Rousseau: Of Savages and States By Gabriel Blanchard The political and cultural cascades we tumble over today find their headwater in the cool, glassy well of Lake Geneva. …
The Great Conversation: Man—Part III
The Great Conversation: Man—Part III By Gabriel Blanchard If man is the measure of all things, how are we to understand man? And if not, how are we …
St. Hildegard of Bingen: “The Sibyl of the Rhine”
St. Hildegard of Bingen: “The Sibyl of the Rhine” By Gabriel Blanchard Today we discuss the life and times of a renaissance woman—albeit the rennaissance in question was …
St. Hildegard of Bingen: “The Sibyl of the Rhine” Read More »
The Great Conversation: Man—Part II
The Great Conversation: Man—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard If man is the measure of all things, how are we to understand man? And if not, how are we …
Terence: The Paradoxes of Comedy
Terence: The Paradoxes of Comedy By Gabrie Blanchard The frivolity of Terence’s plays conceals a great depth of human feeling. There are many playwrights on the CLT Author …
The Great Conversation: Man—Part I
The Great Conversation: Man—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard If man is the measure of all things, how are we to understand man? And if not, how are we …
Boyle: “The Sceptical Chymist”
Boyle: “The Sceptical Chymist” By Gabriel Blanchard We often, rightly, admire the intellectual gifts of great authors; yet there is a moral quality the sciences especially can’t go …
The Great Conversation: Form
The Great Conversation: Form By Gabriel Blanchard Many terms that are colossal in meaning sound unassuming: God, beauty, truth; none is more deceitfully humdrum than form. The theory …
Hughes: The Pride of Harlem
Hughes: The Pride of Harlem By Gabriel Blanchard Human dignity perennially demands both political and artistic expression; in Langston Hughes, both impulses are revealed. Even after a hundred …
The Great Conversation: Scripture—Part II
The Great Conversation: Scripture—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard The nature and history of the idea of Scripture is, and remains, about as tangled as an idea can get. …
