Claire Arcenas is Associate Professor of History at the University of Montana. This interview is based on her new book, America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life (University of Chicago Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write America’s...
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Thinking in paragraphs
Jonathan Jacobs, a philosophy professor at John Jay College in New York City, wants his students to think in paragraphs. He is profiled at The Christian Science Monitor. A taste: …he pushes first-year students in his classes at John Jay...
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn on Bridgerton
If you like Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn’s writing at Current, you will also enjoy her recent piece at Zocalo Public Square. Here is a taste: “Everything is broken,” repeated the chorus of a Bob Dylan song from his 1989 album Oh Mercy—strings (guitar,...
“Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense”
Christian philosopher James K.A. Smith reflects autobiographically and vocationally on this Marilynne Robinson line. Here is a taste of his piece at The Christian Century: Needless to say, I’ve abandoned all hope that we can think our way out of...