Does the American University Deserve to Survive?
With corporate America, academia, and the cultural institutions of this country now captured by the political left, how does conservativism, libertarianism, and classical liberalism forge ahead? How…
A Siberian Rebirth
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. At the end of Crime and Punishment,…
More Than Money?
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. One of the more horrific scenes –…
Motivations to Murder
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. Overhearing a young officer and a student…
Money, Get Away
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. One of the fascinating questions Dostoevsky examines…
Dostoevsky on Descartes
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. Earlier in the semester we had read…
Breadth versus Depth
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. We are finishing our freshmen core text…
A Genealogy of Christianity
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. Christianity for Nietzsche was the greatest catastrophe…
Questioners of the World, Unite!
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. Maybe the most influential text written in…
Slavery as the Original Sin of America
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. With religious arguments sanctioning slavery at their…
The Reasons of Motivations
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. What should students make of Kant’s categorical…
Beneath the Contract
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. It is difficult for a person today…
First Impressions and Ideas
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. This past week we read excerpts from…
Religion and the Postmodern Student
For this semester I will be offering my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. By the second week into…
Why the Humanities Matter Today
Lee Trepanier, Professor of Political Science at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan, edited this important analysis of why the humanities matter, especially within higher education. Trepanier's…