Regrettably, we don’t always need someone else to lead us down the garden path of sophistry; we’re very capable walkers, thanks, and feel sure we can find it unassisted.
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In fairness to Alice, judging by our recently-concluded tour of the wonder-land of ideas, we must concede that the books generally do lack pictures. Conversations, however …
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The Great Conversation: Physics By Gabriel Blanchard Under the seemingly-unassuming name “Physics Dept.,” colleges all over the country house scholars who would unveil what may be the almost-literal
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The Great Conversation: Authortity—Part V By Gabriel Blanchard The authority of the scholar contains certain ironies that may not show at a glance … This post is Part
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Freud: The Enigma of the Mind By Gabriel Blanchard All too casually we toss around terms like “unconscious,” “complex,” “neurotic,” “anti-cathected sublimation” … Freud may seem like an
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Trivialities and Quadrivialities Is the Medieval-Classical Model of Education Truly Still Relevant? By Gabriel Blanchard The classical renewal movement has long argued that the skills of the Trivium
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The Great Conversation:Technology—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard What does technology, especially with its peculiar relationship to information, bode for our future? Go here for Part I. The lens
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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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Pasteur: The War of Life Against Life By Gabriel Blanchard From the shots we cajole our little ones through (or grimace over ourselves!) to the milk we pull
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St. Hildegard of Bingen: “The Sibyl of the Rhine” By Gabriel Blanchard Today we discuss the life and times of a renaissance woman—albeit the rennaissance in question was
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