As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, the time is ripe for reflection about what it means to be a citizen of this great nation. Although it is true that a republic grants its people profound freedom of choice, it is equally true that it lays a significant weight of responsibility on the shoulders of its citizens.
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Ask a hiring manager what they really look for, and you’ll often hear the same answer. They want people who can think. Not just recite, not just execute,
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Julius Caesar’s rise was not an accident of ambition alone, but the result of an education that formed clarity of thought, precision in speech, and decisiveness in action—qualities tested in moments that shaped the course of history.
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A young scholar of philology encountered death face to face on the battlefields of WW1.
The personal losses he suffered were devastating, but he channeled his experience of death into his career as a master of language and myth, and wrote the greatest piece of fictional literature of the 20th century.
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Texts in Context:Timeline of the Postmodern Age By Gabriel Blanchard As the period we have to cover is comparatively small, we have returned to our single-column format for
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Texts in Context:Timeline of Late Modernity,1876-1946 By Gabriel Blanchard Today’s timeline chronicles what we are labelling “Late Modernity” (though we caution the reader that this is not necessarily
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We close this series with an outline of tone and tropes, the clothing in which Lady Rhetoric is clad.
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Ten Years of High StandardsAn Interview With Matthew Tolbert,CLT’s Only Perfect-Scorer It’s been ten years since the launch of the Classic Learning Test, the classically-grounded standardized testing alternative.
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The Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses are infamously complex, so here’s an inattentive summary.
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Like every other time, the High Middle Ages were doomed to pass; but as they did, a certain kind of civilizational innocence seems to have gone with them.
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