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  • The Actual ‘Sword in the Stone’?

    The Actual ‘Sword in the Stone’?0

    Even if you haven’t actually read a version of the legend of King Arthur, you’ve probably seen one of the movies or TV miniseries about it. I well remember the least serious: the 1963 animated Disney classic The Sword in the Stone, which many children from then on have also seen. We just don’t have

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  • Reintegrating the Humanities

    Reintegrating the Humanities0

    • May 5, 2016

    I have always sought to instill into my students that a knowledge of literature is not possible without an adequate knowledge of history, philosophy and theology. I stress, for instance, that we cannot know the plays of Shakespeare unless we know something about the time and culture in which he was living and the philosophical

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  • Ben Franklin on the Value of Rational Debate

    Ben Franklin on the Value of Rational Debate0

    When students in a maximum security prison education program beat out West Point cadets in a debate competition a while back, the story made headlines because of its almost man-bites-dog nature.  West Point debate coach Adam Scher recently responded to the phenomenon in an opinion piece for The Washington Post. As Scher implies, debate competitions

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  • 3 ‘Bad Loves’: When Freud and Christian Theology Actually Agree

    3 ‘Bad Loves’: When Freud and Christian Theology Actually Agree0

    Love is perhaps the greatest emotion humans can feel. It’s generally viewed as a positive concept, but philosophers, literature, and psychologists have long attempted to show that love of the wrong things in the wrong ways is a great vice. The philosopher Mortimer Adler, in his book The Great Ideas, identified three types of “bad

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  • 12 Times Calvin and Hobbes Taught Us about Philosophy & Religion

    12 Times Calvin and Hobbes Taught Us about Philosophy & Religion0

    As you may know, Calvin & Hobbes contains religious and philosophical significance in its very title. In a nod to his political science classes in college, creator Bill Watterson named Calvin after John Calvin, the 16th-century theologian and reformer, and Hobbes after the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Here are 12 times that philosophy and religion spilled

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  • Would Hillary Clinton really be the first female president?

    Would Hillary Clinton really be the first female president?0

    A cornerstone of Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been that she would be America’s first female president, and it has been a theme her supporters consistently have trumpeted. “When folks talk about a revolution,” Sen. Debbie Stabenow said earlier this year. “The revolution is electing the first woman president of the United States.” This makes political

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  • Why feminists hate Lord of the Rings

    Why feminists hate Lord of the Rings0

    “Ever since I arrived at Cambridge as a student in 1964 and encountered a tribe of full-grown women wearing puffed sleeves, clutching teddies, and babbling excitedly about the doings of hobbits, it has been my nightmare that J.R.R. Tolkien would turn out to be the most influential writer of the twentieth century. The bad dream

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  • Student Detained For Using $2 Bill to Buy Lunch

    Student Detained For Using $2 Bill to Buy Lunch0

    Just when you thought you’d seen it all in the public school system. Imagine sending your child to school with money to buy lunch, and then being told that the child was attempting to use “fake” money to buy said lunch. (And that your child had “admitted” it was fake.) Well, that’s what reportedly happened

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  • Instead of Socialism, How About Making EVERYBODY a Capitalist?

    Instead of Socialism, How About Making EVERYBODY a Capitalist?0

    Debates about models of political economy typically polarize between advocates of laissez-faire capitalism and full-on socialism. It’s as if the only choices were (a) “every man for himself” in the free market, with little or no social safety net, or (b) government owning or running the most vital sectors of the economy, for the sake

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