FPR Annual Conference: October 8 at The University of Notre Dame
Join us for our 6th annual conference. This year we'll be at The University of Notre Dame. The theme of our conference: Populism, Power,...
Benedict Option in Baltimore
The Academy of Philosophy and Letters 2016 Conference
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Academy of Philosophy and Letters Conference
The Academy of Philosophy and Letters will be holding its annual conference at the BWI in Baltimore on May 27-29. The Topic this year...
The Craft of Education
“Then education is the craft concerned with doing this very thing, this turning around, and with how the soul can most easily and effectively...
Learning to Wait
"Through delayed fulfillment, good desires grow stronger."
Gregory the Great
Almost fifty years ago the famous marshmallow experiment suggested the importance of being able to wait.
There...
My Wife Has What I Need
“Men and women, however, live together not only to procreate children but also to have whatever is needed for life. Indeed, from the beginning,...
Laying Waste Our Fields
“That day when Turnus raised the flag of war…
The high commanders…
From every quarter drew repeated levies
And laid the wide fields waste of their...
Pass the Biscuits
From Reason, Jesse Walker, ace archivist/alchemist of Americana, on the toothless but entertaining populist Texan Pappy O'Daniel.
Asking for Direction in Baffling Times
"All Italians, all the Oenotrian land,
Resorted to this place in baffling times,
Asking direction; here a priest brought gifts..."
Virgil, The Aeneid
What do I do now?...
Against Scaling Up
In The Atlantic, Cambridge professor Antara Haldar tells the story of Oregon's Stumptown Coffee, and how being bought by Peet's last October could, "corrode the very core...