The Great Conversation: Oligarchy
The Great Conversation: Oligarchy By Gabriel Blanchard Money is power, sometimes literally. The word oligarchy comes from the Greek ὀλίγος, meaning “few.” Technically, any government by a small …
Great Ideas
The Great Conversation: Law
The Great Conversation: Law By Matt McKeown Man is a political animal. … Right? Some of the great ideas come up more often around elections, and law is …
The Great Conversation: Soul
The Great Conversation: Soul By Gabriel Blanchard The nourishment and maturation of the soul is the stated aim of classic education. We had better know what we mean …
The Great Conversation: Desire
The Great Conversation: Desire By Matt McKeown There are few ideas more deceitfully simple than desire. Desire is a more complicated subject than it may appear at first …
The Great Conversation: Beauty
The Great Conversation: Beauty By Matt McKeown The definition of beauty—indeed, whether it can be defined at all—is a remarkably difficult problem in the history of thought. Goodness, …
The Great Conversation: Immortality
The Great Conversation: Immortality By Gabriel Blanchard Fittingly, immortality is one of the perennial subjects of human thought. As The Princess Bride taught us, man is mortal. People …
The Great Conversation: Fate
The Great Conversation: Fate By Matt McKeown Fate is an idea as old as the written word. The will of Jove, the Viking Norns, the cycle of samsāra …
The Great Conversation: Time
What is time? Scientists, mystics, and philosophers have tried to describe and define it, yet it has eluded most of them—even though we all experience it.
The Great Conversation: Science
The Great Conversation: Science By Gabriel Blanchard Science has taken us from watching the moon to walking on it. The word science comes ultimately from the Latin scire, …
Student Essay: The Black Hole Information Paradox
The black hole information paradox is a celebrated problem in modern astrophysics. Miss Mila Patrick outlines the issue, along with some proposed solutions.
