Boethius: An Author Profile
The wheel of fortune, the problem of evil, and the mystery of divine foreknowledge are famous problems; Boethius, in a forgotten book, addressed them all.
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Why a “Hard” Education Is Better
It isn’t really possible to make a child love learning; you can only make them learn. Their loves will be their own.
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Defending Our Students From Propaganda
The only defense against the worst is a knowledge of the best. By their ignorance people enfranchise their exploiters. —Wendell Berry
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Voltaire: An Author Profile
As one of the principal architects of the French Enlightenment, Voltaire wields an influence on all subsequent world history.
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The Great Conversation: God
Religios studies concern how human beings think and behave; theology concerns the thing they think and act “about.” They differ as eyes and light differ.
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The Great Conversation: Element
Nature that fram’d us of four elements, / Warring within our breast for regiment, / Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: / Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend / The wondrous architecture of the world …
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Dostoevsky: An Author Profile
Dostoevsky remains relevant to our time because he did not bind his concerns to his. He thrills with what Joseph Frank called “eschatological apprehension.”
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College Board Drops Plans for an at Home SAT
College Board drops plans for an at home SAT. Offering a secure remote proctored test requires putting students first.
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The Great Conversation: Citizen
The relation between citizenship and legal rights, sex, ethnicity, religion, economic class, and a host of other things has a complicated history.
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Of Morals and Mystery
Sayers’ work becomes what Woolf calls “a room of one’s own,” a place where she can be at liberty write without thought to the expectations of her sex to marry nor to limit herself to the conventions of her Oxford education.
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