Today’s thought experiment comes from Marcus Tullius Cicero, who considers in his book On Duties, circumstances “when utility seems to conflict with honorableness.” From our very own Dr. Newton’s translation, Cicero writes: “[I]f a good man sets out from Alexandria to...
Benjamin Franklin is often credited with saying, “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” Whether he said it or not, at first listen it would seem to be quite the patriotic sentiment of a great American. But is it? The...
Well, apparently, today is no ordinary day. March 21, 2025, it turns out, is National Crunchy Taco Day, World Vermouth Day, World Puppetry Day, International Color Day, Slytherin Pride Day, Red Nose Day, Credit Card Reduction Day, and National Healthy...
Today is the last day of Winter. For many, this is welcome news. In fact, for some, Winter itself is the cause of what mental health professionals now call Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. The disorder was first formally set...
Some of you may have celebrated St. Patrick’s Day yesterday. Often, the holiday is marked by dyeing everything green and pinching anyone not wearing it, looking for four leaf clovers, and stories of leprechauns, rainbows and pots of gold. There...
Our consideration of daylight savings yesterday got me thinking about time in general. Now, you may be thinking to yourself, “how much more time do we have to listen this?”—but thinking about time can be a very valuable thing. It certainly was...
Yesterday, we observed that, despite what the world may say, not everything is truly art. But I wonder, what do you think is the greatest artwork of all time? Michelangelo makes a pretty good case—the Pieta, the Sistine Chapel, the...
We’ve been discussing art this week, but have not yet considered what, exactly, art is in the first place. In many ways, art defies definition. Philosophers, men of letters, academics, artists themselves, have attempted to clarify what makes something art. But even...
Have you ever watched a great artist work? It is often slow, deliberate, even painstaking. There is great care taken at every stage in the creation of a piece, with the littlest detail tended to until it is gotten right. ...
One of the dangers of language is that the meanings of words often change with usage. People used to call God “awful,” because He inspired a sense of awe and wonder—now it means really bad; a “nice” person used to...
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