This Week’s Bookshelf
This Week’s Bookshelf If by some chance you gave up podcasts for Lent, welcome back to the Anchored audience! We launched the Anchored podcast in 2020, and we’ve …
Great Works & Authors
Mendel: The Father of Heredity
Mendel: The Father of Heredity By Gabriel Blanchard How did an obscure priest from the hinterlands of an extinct empire become one of the most eminent names in …
Wittgenstein: The Subtle Art of Language
Wittgenstein: The Subtle Art of Language By Matt McKeown Language is the vehicle of all thought; using it clearly and correctly is, accordingly, indispensable. But is it possible? …
Student Essay: A Tale of Three Easters
Student Essay: A Tale of Three Easters By Catherine Gath The recurring image of new life from the dead is the animating force of Dickens’ most celebrated novel. …
Arendt: The Inhumanity of Man
Arendt: The Inhumanity of Man By Noah Farley Arendt’s work on the nature of evil remains dreadfully relevant in the twenty-first century. The twentieth century bore the fruit …
Eliot: An Un-Provincial Mind
Eliot: An Un-Provincial Mind By Gabriel Blanchard Though she shocked her contemporaries, Eliot’s work has become some of the most celebrated literature in British history. The late eighteenth …
Susan B. Anthony: “Liberty and Justice for All”
Susan B. Anthony: “Liberty and Justice for All” By Matt McKeown Is it merely coincidence that Lady Liberty is a lady? Women’s suffrage is so ordinary to us, …
Sartre: The Voltaire of the Twentieth Century
Sartre: The Voltaire of the Twentieth Century By Gabriel Blanchard In Sartre, we meet an enigma—and a firebrand. Jean-Paul Sartre is perhaps the single most prominent existentialist philosopher …
Leibniz: Light Upon Light
Leibniz: Light Upon Light By Matt McKeown Differential calculus may not be for everyone, but, in some branch or other, the mind of Leibniz is. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz …
Solzhenitsyn: A Lamp in the Dark
Solzhenitsyn: A Lamp in the Dark By Gabriel Blanchard An author who saw most of the twentieth century from the vantage point of two of the greatest world …
