The second most boring part of teaching is reviewing material, for it catches the teacher in the doldrums between summarizing and examini...

It's a trite saying that school is wasted on the young, but I can't otherwise explain how a precious poem, studied in one of my fav...

Some attain immortality by doing great deeds, others by getting swept up in the affairs of great men. It's unlikely we would remember a...

Gil-galad was an Elven-king Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea Hi...

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This is Part II of our look at philosophical ideas represented in art. It comes on the heels of my stumbling upon and reading George Santay...

Last week at The Hannibal Blog , Andreas Kluth put the question, "Greatest thinkers: Greeks or Germans?" Of course the challenge i...