Humility: A Hidden Source of Strength
Humility: A Hidden Source of Strength By Fr. Robert Nixon, OSB Humility is a vital element in the spiritual life, and one we often misinterpret. Humility is the …
Great Works & Authors
Harvey: The Blood and the Body
Harvey: The Blood and the Body By Matt McKeown All subsequent medicine owes William Harvey an inestimable debt. Sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe saw a great flowering of scientists. …
Dickens: Satire and Sentiment
Dickens: Satire and Sentiment By Gabriel Blanchard The work of Dickens is at once politically radical and warmly domestic. Nineteenth-century Britain was rich in popular literature, much of …
Montaigne: The Checkered Shades of Faith
Montaigne: The Checkered Shades of Faith By Matt McKeown Belief and skepticism strike us as opposites, but paradox is a familiar element in belief. As we know, the …
Student Essay: Superstition and Religion in “Huckleberry Finn”
Student Essay: Superstition and Religion in Huckleberry Finn By Catherine Gath Twain’s portrait of what religion and superstition are to Finn indicate a subtle relationship between the two. …
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James: Function, Fact, and Faith
James: Function, Fact, and Faith By Matt McKeown The work of William James has shaped all later discussions of academic fields from psychotherapy to mysticism. The last third …
Pascal: The Calculation of Divinity
Pascal: The Calculation of Divinity By Gabriel Blanchard In a career of just over twenty years, Pascal changed the direction of European thought. Born in central France in …
Archimedes: The Mathematician With a Hundred Hands
Archimedes: The Mathematician With a Hundred Hands By Gabriel Blanchard In the modern world as much as antiquity, few minds can hold a candle to Archimedes. As a …
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Fitzgerald: The Age of Jazz
Fitzgerald:The Age of Jazz By Matt McKeown Fun and unhappiness blend in a peculiar manner in Fitzgerald’s work. Though he died abruptly of a heart attack at only …
Journey Through the Author Bank Begins Tomorrow!
Our Journey Through the Author Bank Seminar Series Begins Tomorrow! Want to start reading the great books for yourself? Now’s the time! The CLT Author Bank is a …
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