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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 […]

Machiavelli’s Army

“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.” Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince. “Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.” (Therefore he who desires peace, should prepare for war) Vegetius, Epitoma Rei Militaris. Niccolo […]

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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