The Great Conversation: Constitution By Matt McKeown Society is governed by laws. What governs the laws themselves? When we speak of constitutions here in the US, we tend […]
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The Great Conversation: Memory and Imagination By Matt McKeown Considering that we use them every time we think, it can be surprisingly difficult to explain what we mean
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The Great Conversation: Evolution By Gabriel Blanchard The development of life, from the bacterium to the bass player, is a largely modern contribution to the Great Conversation. Evolution
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The Great Conversation: Theology By Matt McKeown Few topics are as contentious, or as rich, as that of divinity. We have discussed religion here at the journal before.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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