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. …
Historical Profile
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 …
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 …
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 …
Thoreau: Defiance, Loneliness, and Beauty
Thoreau: Defiance, Loneliness, and Beauty By Travis Copeland Few authors are less timely than Thoreau, and it is in this that he is most edifying to us. Henry …
A World of Thanks
A World of Thanks By Gabriel Blanchard To give thanks for a good harvest is one of the most ancient traditions in the world. Thanksgiving is sometimes thought …
St. Gregory the Great: Father of the Eternal City
St. Gregory the Great: Father of the Eternal City By Gabriel Blanchard It is almost never true that anyone singlehandedly saved a whole community; it might be true …
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Cavendish: The Blazing World
Cavendish: The Blazing World By Gabriel Blanchard The English Baroque period knew few minds as baroque as that of Margaret Cavendish. Margaret Lucas Cavendish was the first Duchess …
