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  • Berkeley Removes 20k Online Videos to Comply with Nutty DOJ Order

    Berkeley Removes 20k Online Videos to Comply with Nutty DOJ Order0

    Thanks to a demand from the Justice Department last year, the public will soon lose access to thousands of college lectures. Inside Higher Ed reports that the University of California, Berkeley will “cut off public access to tens of thousands of video lectures and podcasts in response to a U.S. Justice Department order that it make

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  • Beren and Lúthien: Tolkien’s Greatest Love Story

    Beren and Lúthien: Tolkien’s Greatest Love Story0

    There are many great literary love stories. Apart from fairytale princesses and their trysts with charming princes, we think perhaps of Romeo and Juliet, or Helen and Paris, or Odysseus and Penelope, or Aeneas and Dido, or Dante and Beatrice. And we think of those who gave us such lovers. Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, Dante. We

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  • Benjamin Franklin’s 4 Steps to Becoming a Great Writer

    Benjamin Franklin’s 4 Steps to Becoming a Great Writer0

    If Twitter or Facebook had existed during the colonial period, Benjamin Franklin likely would have been one of its wittiest contributors, as evidenced by his pithy words of wisdom in Poor Richard’s Almanac. But Franklin wrote far more than witty slogans. In fact, his personal correspondence, policy proposals, and other writings take up a full

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  • Benjamin Franklin: America’s ‘Founding Physician’

    Benjamin Franklin: America’s ‘Founding Physician’0

    When Benjamin Franklin deferred to Thomas Jefferson in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, he did so for multiple reasons. He wished to avoid the annoyance of being edited by the committee of the whole Continental Congress, as Jefferson was, to Jefferson’s great distress. Franklin sought to ensure the support of Jefferson’s Virginia for

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  • Benjamin Franklin on the 4 Virtues Learned in Chess

    Benjamin Franklin on the 4 Virtues Learned in Chess0

    • October 12, 2016

    I have a bit of a confession to make. I have never played chess, nor have I really ever had the desire to do so. (Sorry, chess fans.) However, I may be changing my mind on this issue, particularly after reading a piece by Benjamin Franklin entitled, “The Morals of Chess.” Franklin begins by saying,

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  • Benjamin Franklin on Achieving Greatness

    Benjamin Franklin on Achieving Greatness0

    • September 2, 2015

    “Almost every Man has a strong natural Desire of being valued and esteemed by the rest of his Species; but I am concerned and grieved to see how few fall into the Right and only infallible Method of becoming so. That laudable Ambition is too commonly misapplyed and often ill employed. Some to make themselves

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