Cooper: “Mens Immota Manet”
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
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 …
Student Essay: A Shepherd In the Wilderness
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. …
Kierkegaard: The Father of Existentialism
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 …
James: Function, Fact, and Faith
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 …
Hegel: Dialectics of Being
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 …
Newman: History and Eternity
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 …
Darwin: The Father of Modern Biology
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 …