Rhetorica: Of the Same Clay
What is essential to argument is not that both sides prove everything they say, but only that they begin from premises both parties accept.
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Civics
Sorting Through Sophistries: Enter the Sea Lion
Free debate is a good thing, but it is hard to encourage after an experience with a “sea lion”; this damages the communication skills of everyone involved.
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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
On Piety—Part III
From the history of piety, we now turn to its present and future; and, indeed, the question of whether it has one.
On Piety—Part II
From its antique beginnings in Greco-Roman society, piety took a new and radically different shape in the Middle Ages.
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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On Piety—Part I
Classical piety needs to be recovered by Christians, and by all people who seek to lead lives of true, enduring, and robust virtue.
The Great Conversation: Education—Part I
The Great Conversation: Education—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard We shall doubtless get to the last in due time, but what, in the first place, is education for? On
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The Great Conversation: Government
The Great Conversation: Government By Gabriel Blanchard It began to be said several years ago that “strange women lying in ponds distributing swords” were becoming a more appealing
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Tocqueville: An Author Profile
TocquevilleAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The legacy of the American and French Revolutions is a complicated one, and nowhere exhibits its complexity more than in the writings
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