Community among Academics: An Economist’s Retrospective
Two weeks ago I spoke to an orientation program for new faculty at Pepperdine. I shared with them what I had been told at...
What You Need to Know About Mozart
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Life Under Compulsion: The Minotaur
When we lose the sense of transcendence, when in our hearts and minds the things of time are no longer oriented toward eternity, then,...
What You Need to Know About Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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On Killing (Chickens)
Hidden Springs Lane. Last weekend the deed was done. Having acquired 25 chicks in the spring (they were free) it soon became clear that...
What You Need to Know About Henry David Thoreau
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The REPEALicans and the GOP’s Secret Hope
In what passes for political humor these days, Nancy Pelosi has ridiculed the GOP as the “REPEALicans.” She did so in response to the...
Nourishing America
In a recently popular documentary, Rosie, a 5th-grader from a small town in Colorado, describes how she often goes to bed with an empty...
What You Need to Know About Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The 3% Solution, the Cruz Gambit, the Full Rubio, and the...
The advantage of being out of power is that it gives a political party time to think and reflect. Better yet, it gives a...