Woolf: Upon the Waters
Woolf: Upon the Waters By Gabriel Blanchard In her narrative techniques and personal ideals, Woolf was emblematic of all of twentieth-century literature. It has been pointed out (sometimes …
Woolf: Upon the Waters By Gabriel Blanchard In her narrative techniques and personal ideals, Woolf was emblematic of all of twentieth-century literature. It has been pointed out (sometimes …
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 …
Whitehead: The Procession of the Universe By Gabriel Blanchard Whitehead said Western philosophy can be described as footnotes to Plato; whether Whitehead saw the weight of the footnote …
Keynes: The Law and the Profits By Gabriel Blanchard* The love of money is a root of all kinds of government. Economics is by no means a new …
Tocqueville: The Eighth Sage By Gabriel Blanchard The legacy of the American and French Revolutions is a complicated one, and nowhere exhibits its complexity more than in the …
Von Goethe: The Father of Romanticism By Gabriel Blanchard Goethe inaugurated a fundamental change in the passions that inspire literature in general. Romanticism is an idea we tend …
Smith: The Soft Science of Hard Cash By Gabriel Blanchard To many people, capitalism is as essentially American as the stars and stripes—but where did it come from? …
The Great Conversation: Authortity—Part V By Gabriel Blanchard The authority of the scholar contains certain ironies that may not show at a glance … This post is Part …
Freud: The Enigma of the Mind By Gabriel Blanchard All too casually we toss around terms like “unconscious,” “complex,” “neurotic,” “anti-cathected sublimation” … Freud may seem like an …
Origen: The Godfather of Christian Theology By Gabriel Blanchard In the person of Origen, Christianity became for the first time an officially, and formidably, intellectual force. It seems …