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Poetry Postage

Thanks, Davey, for the heads up * * * Is there anything Dana Gioia cannot do with poetry? * * * Former National Endowment for the Arts chair Dana Gioia, who lives in Santa Rosa, is on the committee to select commemorative stamps. On March 3, the Postal Service releases a series of stamps, its […]

A Tribute to Dr. John Senior

This is an amazing tribute to Dr. John Senior by Robert Wyer (an student of the Integrated Humanities Program – IHP): The original article can be found here   Dr. John Senior was a retired Professor of Classics and a well-known Catholic thinker, of international reputation. He authored The Way Down and Out (1959), The Death of Christian […]

Book III Crime and Punishment

‘Lying Your Way To the Truth’ Razumikhin restores a kind of order to Raskolnikov’s life. We’d do well to look at a few things that Razumikhin thinks of that reflect a desire similar to Raskolnikov’s in that they both protest about the emptiness of using other people‘s ideas. Razumikhin is so much a likable character […]

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