January 11, 2010
The Technocratic American University
Due to the emphasis the modern Enlightenment places on the popular dispensation of reason and the rational triumph over...
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January 11, 2010
Due to the emphasis the modern Enlightenment places on the popular dispensation of reason and the rational triumph over...
January 11, 2010
Peter Augustine Lawler explores the tension between freedom and dignity on campus and beyond
January 11, 2010
Rita Koganzon picks apart the meritocracy lament in recent memoirs of Ivy League education
January 11, 2010
What Nathaniel Hawthorne's “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” teaches about the allure of immortality
January 8, 2010
From January 16, 2002, to June 11, 2009, I served on the President’s Council on Bioethics. Chaired first by Leon...
September 18, 2009
By the second quarter of the twentieth century, one of the world’s most revered figures was a long-haired, somewhat...
September 18, 2009
Alan Jacobs on Iain M. Banks's "Culture" novels and the price of bliss.
September 18, 2009
Anathem is a big book about a big topic: nothing less than the nature of the universe and of intelligence within it....
September 18, 2009
Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner (“to know all is to forgive all”) is a questionable saying on...
September 18, 2009
The standard Frankenstein read during most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was the third published version of...