The Great Conversation: Idea—Part I
The Great Conversation: Idea—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard This series is about the great ideas; so what are ideas? At its core, an idea is a fairly simple […]
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The Great Conversation: Idea—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard This series is about the great ideas; so what are ideas? At its core, an idea is a fairly simple […]
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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
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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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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