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August 2018

August 04, 2018
Brett Favre always wanted to play or so it seemed watching him. He seemed never to...
August 03, 2018
In some parts of American Christianity there is a weird belief that all forms of...
August 02, 2018
Socrates knew what Jesus incarnated: the beginning questions contain the apocalypse and paradise. News happens...
August 01, 2018
All loves can go awry when they become disconnected to goodness, truth, and beauty. We...

July 2018

July 31, 2018
Read enough great books and you see connections. . . Plato, T.S. Eliot, and A.E....
July 30, 2018
We are gluttons for edutainment, the thought- free substitute for education that gives us little...
July 29, 2018
If there is great food made in a microwave, I have never eaten it. Microwave...
July 28, 2018
Asking a question begins a series of questions so endless that if it were not...
July 27, 2018
There are a few rulers so corrupt, think Stalin or Hitler, that justice for them...
July 26, 2018
Plato could foretell the future, but he was no prophet. How? A wise person knows...
July 25, 2018
We should not commit any injustice, but we are imperfect in a world marred by...
July 24, 2018
God is the very ground of being and I am . . . Not, obviously...
July 23, 2018
If I can still blush in a discussion, I might still be capable of learning,...
July 22, 2018
Unjust people think that justice is weakness. The just person hides behind justice, even with...
July 21, 2018
“Is it better to be a happy cat or a discontented Socrates?” This question seemed...
July 20, 2018
They say that once there was a king who wished to marry a woman who...
July 19, 2018
Just Go Ahead and Embrace Injustice: An Example   Imagine sitting in a meeting and...
July 18, 2018
Debate as a Life Strategy: No Formal debates may be good, I have done a...
July 17, 2018
George Washington went home. That’s the greatest thing he did and is remarkable in human...
July 16, 2018
God bless the business leader who ends up wealthy, while benefiting our economy. God bless...
July 15, 2018
Some skills are easy and if nature is allowed to take her course, most people...
July 14, 2018
Being a loud person means being, much of the time, an absurd (or hopefully a...
July 13, 2018
My pastors have worked hard for little pay. You could (and can!) call them at...
July 12, 2018
Some things change. Abraham Lincoln never sent a text to the Tsar of all the...
July 11, 2018
“Justice is whatever benefits the strong!” In years of leading Republic discussions, some students have...
July 10, 2018
Winning is not a winning move if we are wrong. That’s obvious, because most of...
July 09, 2018
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is the nicest film of the year. When I said...
July 08, 2018
“It’s just words.” “Beware the quibbles.” When you hear someone impatient with careful thought, defining...
July 07, 2018
My dear mom liked to collect very old books that were splendidly, terribly bad. She...
July 06, 2018
Socrates without the hope of orthodoxy leaves us at a loss. This is both frightening...
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