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When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the “Divine Comedy,” a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries. The “Divine Comedy” follows the journey of a pilgrim across the three realms of the Christian afterlife – hell,
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A new biography by Jason L. Riley called “Maverick: A biography of Thomas Sowell” focuses on the critical thinker Thomas Sowell, who seems to think with every fiber of his being. As of this writing, Thomas Sowell is 91 and going strong. According to Prager University, he is “an economist,
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“When I was a boy of fourteen,” Mark Twain once noted, “my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” Like Twain, some
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“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.” —William Shakespeare While I’m far from qualified to teach a course on the subject of Shakespeare, there’s profound wisdom to be
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Following a This summer 7, 2021 murder of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse after one Haitian official requested the U.N. and U.S. send troops to assist stabilize the country, many Haitian activists and artists recoiled at the possibilities of another outdoors intervention. The Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat is a artist that
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When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the “Divine Comedy,” a monumental poem
1,834 Views
A new biography by Jason L. Riley called “Maverick: A biography of Thomas Sowell” focuses on the critical thinker Thomas Sowell, who seems to think
1,432 Views
“When I was a boy of fourteen,” Mark Twain once noted, “my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man
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“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his
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Following a This summer 7, 2021 murder of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse after one Haitian official requested the U.N. and U.S. send troops to assist
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