Equiano: An Author Profile
Few figures in our Author Bank have life stories as dramatic as Olaudah Equiano’s—an “interesting narrative” indeed …
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Tolstoy: An Author Profile
Tolstoy:An Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard One of the pivotal figures of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and radicalism, Tolstoy was (as we must surely expect by now) vocally
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St. Bernard: An Author Profile
St. BernardAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The academy, the battlefield, the royal court, and the chapel of twelfth-century Europe all bore the mark of St. Bernard’s hand.
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Rumors of Wars
Rumors of WarsA Brief Discussion ofJust War Theory By Gabriel Blanchard Few topics are as theoretically involved, or as grimly practical, as the ethical philosophy of violence. Unrest
Edgar Allan Poe: An Author Profile
There is no greater master of the ghoulish among American authors than the tragic figure of Edgar Allan Poe.
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The Great Conversation: Wisdom—Part VII
The Great Conversation:Wisdom—Part VII By Gabriel Blanchard If there is any single father of the Western tradition, it is surely Socrates; and the only thing Socrates claimed to
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Sojourner Truth: An Author Profile
The tall, lean shape of Sojourner Truth strode tirelessly across the North, carrying the law and the gospel of freedom in its mouth.
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The Great Conversation: Wisdom—Part VI
To fathom the nature and operations of the divine upon humanity is an illumination beyond the workaday intellect.
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The Great Conversation: Wisdom—Part V
The resemblance between the words “mystery” and “mysticism” may be mere coincidence to us, but, as Chesterton put it, it is a coincidence that really does coincide.
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The Great Conversation: Wisdom—Part IV
From the more obvious moral and intellectual meanings of wisdom, we pass now to something more esoteric.
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