Over at Foreign Policy, Justin Smith asks the same question. Here is a taste: Outside of the context of drama, in the Roman Republic, personhood was commonly extended to municipalities and voluntary associations. This entailed, among other things, that such...
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McClay: “a human person is a historical being, in whom the past remains immanent in the present”
“The Evening of Life” is the theme of the Fall issue of The Hedgehog Review. Wilfred McClay‘s piece on aging is definitely worth reading. Here is a taste of “Being There“: Imagine yourself as a young man, perhaps in late adolescence or...
Storytelling and Humanities Funding
Over at the Huffington Post, Patrick Hicks, the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College, reminds us of the importance of story as it relates to the funding of the humanities. Here is a taste: As far as we know, human beings are...
Do Universities “Police the Imagination?”
Madison Smartt Bell, an English professor at Goucher College, a writer, and a finalist for the National Book Award, begins his Chronicle of Higher Education essay “Policing the Imagination” with this story: In the latest issue of Write, a publication of the...
Reader Feedback: Coates on Historians and Hope
Yesterday our “quote of the day” came from Ta-Nehesi Coates’s reflections on historians and hope.Here is the quote I chose:.. I think that a writer wedded to “hope” is ultimately divorced from “truth.” Two creeds can’t occupy the same place...