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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Epictetus: An Author Profile
Self-mastery, over both emotions and thoughts, is an invaluable skill that every person should work to acquire.
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The Great Conversation: Temperance
“The archer that shoots over, misses as much as he that falls short, and ’tis equally troublesome to my sight to look up at a great light, and to look down into a dark abyss.” Michel de Montaigne
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The Great Conversation: Space
A vacuum is defined precisely by not being anything, unless sheer empty space is a thing. But if it is, what is it? How do you define it?
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