The Great Conversation: Authority—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard The question of authority impinges on practically every other field of inquiry that exists or can exist. Though curiously omitted […]
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MontesquieuAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard We have a general notion of the debt our government structure owes to the British, the Romans, even possibly the Iroquois; but
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RousseauAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The political and cultural cascades we tumble over today find their headwater in the cool, glassy well of Lake Geneva. The parts
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WycliffeAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard In one sense Wycliffe was simply one more example of Medieval patterns of belief and devotion; but the patterns were breaking, and
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ThoreauAn Author Profile By Travis Copeland Few authors are less timely than Thoreau, and it is in this that he is most edifying to us. Henry David Thoreau
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The Great Conversation: Liberty—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard The liberties of speech and person we take for granted are part of a larger philosophic framework—one with a more
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The Great Conversation: Liberty—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard Liberty is among the most complex and controversial topics in the Great Conversation—which is saying a lot! One of the
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NietzscheAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Only a few authors can claim to have foreseen (or foreshadowed) the chaos of the twentieth century, but the shadow of Nietzsche
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Student Essay: Responding to Persecution By Rebecca Phillips Most democracies prize freedom of religion, yet the Christian religion says, “Blessed are the persecuted.” What is the Christian who
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Magna CartaA Book Profile By Travis Copeland The supremacy of law over arbitrary government is not guaranteed by civilization, but cost immense effort to obtain. The Magna Carta
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