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By Alan Gilbert. Hilary was my dear friend (one of my dearest), a human being of great depth, a philosopher, learning from Maimonides and Dewey, how to write subtle guides for life, compassionate, a communist or social democrat in the sense of wanting...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 At the Catholic blog Vox Nova, mathematics professor David Cruz-Uribe writes: I… am currently working through the metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas as part of his proofs...

The Great Books of western civilization have stood the test of time. They aren’t regarded mainly because they’re old, but because they have endured on the basis of the wisdom they convey about ultimate reality, life, and the human experience. This is...

Martha Nussbaum of the University of Chicago and author of Creating Capabilities talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about an alternative to GDP for measuring economic performance at the national level. She is a proponent of the capabilities approach...

Now that American and European saber rattling has quieted down, Iran’s (aspirational) nuclear weapon no longer seems quite the “existential threat” it used to be.  For this, we have Russian and Iranian diplomacy to thank. Of course...