Rousseau: Of Savages and States
Rousseau: Of Savages and States By Gabriel Blanchard The political and cultural cascades we tumble over today find their headwater in the cool, glassy well of Lake Geneva. …
Great Works & Authors
St. Hildegard of Bingen: “The Sibyl of the Rhine”
St. Hildegard of Bingen: “The Sibyl of the Rhine” By Gabriel Blanchard Today we discuss the life and times of a renaissance woman—albeit the rennaissance in question was …
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Terence: The Paradoxes of Comedy
Terence: The Paradoxes of Comedy By Gabrie Blanchard The frivolity of Terence’s plays conceals a great depth of human feeling. There are many playwrights on the CLT Author …
Boyle: “The Sceptical Chymist”
Boyle: “The Sceptical Chymist” By Gabriel Blanchard We often, rightly, admire the intellectual gifts of great authors; yet there is a moral quality the sciences especially can’t go …
Hughes: The Pride of Harlem
Hughes: The Pride of Harlem By Gabriel Blanchard Human dignity perennially demands both political and artistic expression; in Langston Hughes, both impulses are revealed. Even after a hundred …
Codices and Quadragesimas
Codices and Quadragesimas Time and Eastertide wait for no man, as the saying does not go, and anyone planning a Lenten observance has nearly run out … Tomorrow …
The Great Conversation: Scripture—Part I
The Great Conversation: Scripture—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard Sacred Scripture, a contested idea if ever there was one, is also one of the single most fruitful topics in …
Hurston: Portrait of an African America
Hurston: Portrait of an African America By Gabriel Blanchard One aspect of American culture sailed here in the Mayflower; another, in the Amistad. Three years after the birth …
Morrison: “Peace Which Passeth Understanding”
Morrison: “Peace Which Passeth Understanding” By Gabriel Blanchard Morrison re-presents a perennial theme in our literature: the mystery of iniquity, of not only suffering but active evil. She …
Wycliffe: The Waning of the Middle Ages
Wycliffe: The Waning of the Middle Ages By Gabriel Blanchard In one sense Wycliffe was simply one more example of Medieval patterns of belief and devotion; but the …
