The Great Conversation:Technology—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard We live in a technological age; we have a vague sense that that means our world is in some sense different […]
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Virtue at the Testing Point By Travis Copeland Literature offers us tools to rise beyond a merely imaginary idea of courage. Classical education centers around moral instruction, particularly
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TerenceAn Author Profile By Gabrie Blanchard The frivolity of Terence’s plays conceals a great depth of human feeling. There are many playwrights on the CLT Author Bank; after
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Student Essay: Hector and Heroism By Eamonn Flynn Achilles is the protagonist of the Iliad, but most readers see Hector as its moral “hero.” Yet is the conventional
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The Great Conversation: Scripture—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard The nature and history of the idea of Scripture is, and remains, about as tangled as an idea can get.
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The Great Conversation: Scripture—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard Sacred Scripture, a contested idea if ever there was one, is also one of the single most fruitful topics in
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HurstonAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard One aspect of American culture sailed here in the Mayflower; another, in the Amistad. Three years after the birth of their fifth
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The Great Conversation: Magic—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard The effects of magic on both history and literature are well-nigh incalculable, both when it is believed in and when
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MorrisonAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Morrison re-presents a perennial theme in our literature: the mystery of iniquity, of not only suffering but active evil. She also hints
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The Great Conversation:Magic—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard From The High History of the Holy Graal to Macbeth to The Lord of the Rings, we seem to have an
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