by altha-admin | Sep 25, 2011 | Articles
An educator teaches the student that he must participate in the civic life of his community in order to safeguard his freedom. He is a free agent, whether the State attempts to curtail his freedoms, to limit his choices, to define his options without his consent.Yet...
by altha-admin | Sep 25, 2011 | Articles
Seven types of Ambiguity: By Wiliam Empson“An example of the seventh type of ambiguity, or at any rate of the last type of this series, as it is the most ambiguous that can be conceived, occurs when the two meanings of the word, the two values of the ambiguity, are...
by altha-admin | Sep 25, 2011 | Articles
Milton Friedman, recently deceased yet world-renowned economist, championed the free market by advocating limited government and free enterprise in a time when intellectuals trusted the state to regulate the economy, provided jobs, and ensure equal access. My interest...
by altha-admin | Sep 25, 2011 | Articles
Charles Bukowski [ source — http://plagiarist.com/poetry/9117/]Be Angry at San PedroI say to my woman, "Jeffers was a great poet. think of a titlelike Be Angry At The Sun. don't you realize how great that is?"you like that negative stuff." she...
by altha-admin | Sep 25, 2011 | Articles
The Greek concept of Amnesty is very heartwarming.I believe that every man wants to believe that his past crimes are forgiven, that he can face the next day without being dragged down by the mistakes, the wrongdoings, and the sins of his past.Thank you, Lord, for...
by altha-admin | Sep 25, 2011 | Articles
Allen Bloom succinctly makes the case for why Classical Studies are so important.The Greeks were the first people to divorce the notion that ethnicity implied superiority. Well, perhaps not the Greek people as a whole, but the Greek thinkers whose works have been...
