In her short yet foundational essay titled Mr. Truman’s Degree , Elizabeth Anscombe strongly criticizes the University of Oxford’s decision to award an honorary doctorate to Harry Truma n, the U. S. p...
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07.01.2025 Bigthink.comFrom the generally scientifically illiterate pages of the Tribune-Review, today we find yet another attack on compact fluorescent light bulbs. This time Scaife's braintrust is using material quoted fr...
07.02.2025 2politicaljunkies.blogspot.comIt is a disturbing irony that one of the most celebrated ecclesiastical documents of the 20th century, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World or Gaudium et Spes (1965), would, in ...
07.01.2025 Newtimes.co.rw and 1 sitesW ho is Thomas Carlyle? And why did people stop reading him? Once widely acknowledged as among the very greatest 19th-century men of letters—a major interlocutor for Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman—this essayist, historian, and philosopher (1795–1881) is now little read outside of two small categories of devotees. One consists of scholars of the literature and culture of Victorian Britain, who view the “Sage of Chelsea” as crucial to an understanding of the period. These m...
07.03.2025 Publicbooks.orgCompiled by the editors of True West If you realize you are a fool, you are halfway to not being a fool. ” “James B. Mills is what I always hoped my ‘Young Guns’ might ignite. He’s gone deep into the ...
07.02.2025 Truewestmagazine.comKey topics: Crawford explores Eliot’s personal struggles and secret love affairsNewly revealed letters shed light on Eliot’s hidden emotional lifeThe biography traces Eliot’s transformation from rebel...
07.01.2025 Biznews.comAs my readers are already aware, I have little use for religion. As readers may also remember, I once studied for the ministry and, in the pivotal year of 1965, chose between Union Theological Seminar...
07.03.2025 Dnews.comI thought I had received an email from a ghost. The sender was David King, who I naturally mistook for … David King—the UK graphic designer, magazine and book editor, and collector/scholar who died in...
07.02.2025 Printmag.comON 9 JULY 1955, at a press conference in London’s Caxton Hall, the British philosopher Bertrand Russell releases a manifesto signed by 11 scientists and public intellectuals—including Albert Einstein, who had died three months earlier—warning about t...
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