Pascal: The Calculation of Divinity
Pascal: The Calculation of Divinity By Gabriel Blanchard In a career of just over twenty years, Pascal changed the direction of European thought. Born in central France in …
Archimedes: The Mathematician With a Hundred Hands
Archimedes: The Mathematician With a Hundred Hands By Gabriel Blanchard In the modern world as much as antiquity, few minds can hold a candle to Archimedes. As a …
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The Great Conversation: Chance
The Great Conversation: Chance By Gabriel Blanchard Chance is one of those strange ideas that seems quite natural as long as you aren’t thinking about it. The general …
Bohr: The Father of Quantum Mechanics
Bohr:The Father of Quantum Mechanics By Gabriel Blanchard Few men have investigated the fundamental structure of matter as deeply as Niels Bohr. The twentieth century has been called …
The Great Conversation: Sin
The Great Conversation: Sin By Gabriel Blanchard Without saying that sin is a great idea, it is one of the great ideas. Sin is one of the perennial …
Meet the Minds Behind the Great Books
Meet the Minds Behind the Great Books Ever wanted to get to know the great books of the western world? Our purpose at CLT is to encourage everyone …
Cather: Rock, Wind, and Sun
Cather: Rock, Wind, and Sun By Gabriel Blanchard Few authors achieve the distinctive transparency of Cather’s work. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries were rich in celebrated novelists: Emily …
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 …
