Tolstoy An Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard One of the pivotal figures of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and radicalism, Tolstoy was (as we must surely expect by now) […]
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The tall, lean shape of Sojourner Truth strode tirelessly across the North, carrying the law and the gospel of freedom in its mouth.
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Cooper: Mens Immota Manet By Gabriel Blanchard Virgil wrote the line mens immota manet lacrimæ volvuntur inanes* about Æneas; but if he had been thinking of Cooper, he
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Wells: The Home of the Brave By Gabriel Blanchard For boldness, energy, and devotion to principle, Ida B. Wells can rival almost anyone on the Author Bank. Among
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Student Essay: A Shepherd In the Wilderness By Bennet Bauer Being a priest in the Southwest in the 1870s was not a calling for the faint of heart.
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Kierkegaard: The Father of Existentialism By Gabriel Blanchard Kierkegaard is one of the hardest figures on our Author Bank—and yet widely beloved. Here we have, to put it
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James: Function, Fact, and Faith By Matt McKeown The work of William James has shaped all later discussions of academic fields from psychotherapy to mysticism. The last third
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Hegel: Dialectics of Being By Matt McKeown Though his philosophy seems to be the airiest and most abstract of any thinker, we grapple with the consequences of Hegel’s
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Newman: History and Eternity By Matt McKeown Only a handful of figures can truly claim to have revolutionized Christians’ idea of their own history; John Newman is one
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Darwin: The Father of Modern Biology By Gabriel Blanchard Charles Darwin permanently altered the basic assumptions of modern science. Born in 1809, Charles Darwin seemed set up for
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