In this Forum interview, Professor of Philosophy Ian M. Church sat down with Leon Rapoport to discuss his thoughts on the nature, psychology, and intricacy of what it means to be human. What does it mean to be human? While I’m not terribly interested in giving a strict definition in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions, I think there are some descriptions that generally will … Continue reading An Open Forum with Dr. Church
In this Forum interview, Professor of History Paul Rahe sat down with Sophia Mandt to discuss his interactions with renowned academics while an undergraduate, his criticisms of the modern higher education system, and more. In your youth, you had the opportunity to study under well known academics such as Allan Bloom and Donald Kagan. What are some of the most profound or significant things that … Continue reading An Open Forum with Dr. Rahe
By Frederick Woodward Heroism, by nature, tends toward a tragic dichotomy. All throughout human memory, the pattern has remained relatively fixed. A man attains popular immortality, or else he is forgotten a few generations after he dies. The two conditions are not mutually exclusive — one can precede, or follow the other. Popularized, forgotten, redeemed again — these words sum up the cycle of virtually … Continue reading Forgotten Heroes: The Polish Catholic Men that Shaped the American Revolution
Dr. Charles N. Steele Eighty years ago this past August the Japanese Empire was finally defeated. It took over four and a half years of bloody fighting and the ferocious bombing of Japanese cities with incendiaries and atomic bombs to beat them into surrender. It is a great thing that the Japanese Empire was crushed. It was a remarkably brutal regime and it had the … Continue reading The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Dark, Terrible, Wonderful, Righteous Things
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