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  • Joel Cross “Shake it Off”

    Joel Cross is a musician from here in Denton who got his degree in music from the University of North Texas. One of the best guitarists in the area. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing him play many times. Wonderful guy… Continue reading

    Joel Cross “Shake it Off”

  • The Big (Soul) University

    The entire existential project behind Karl Jaspers’ Idea of the University involves integrating a professor’s research with students’ search for their own selves. The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself… Continue reading

    The Big (Soul) University

  • Aphorism 05Oct2015

    Either I risk myself venturing into the world and beyond—or I never will have my ownmost Self as freedom Continue reading

    Aphorism 05Oct2015

  • A Fixed Idea by Amy Lowell

    What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant; and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind Aches with its presence. Dull remembrance taught Remembers on unceasingly; unsought The old delight is with us but to find… Continue reading

    A Fixed Idea by Amy Lowell

  • Corporations Should Practice Authentic Sympathy

    Maybe Tim Cook is channeling the spirit of Adam Smith, whose moral philosophy–the backbone of his political economy–posits that the basis of all human interaction is sympathy which manifests as a personal quest for happiness with a conscience balanced against… Continue reading

  • Community Groups Work to Provide Emergency Medical Alternatives, Separate From Police

    [Jens] Rushing says that during his time as an EMT for [a] small Texas city, police officers were dispatched with him on almost every call, sometimes becoming unnecessarily confrontational and problematic – especially, he said, on calls in which patients were… Continue reading

  • McKinney Classic Film Festival

    The McKinney Classic Film Festival begins Friday, September 11 at the McKinney Performing Arts Center at 111 N. Tennessee Street and runs through Sunday, September 13. A total of five classic films that span the 1930s to the 1960s, will be screened throughout the… Continue reading

  • Neoliberalist Humanities

    It is not the humanities per se that are under attack. It is learning: learning for its own sake, curiosity for its own sake, ideas for their own sake. It is the liberal arts, but understood in their true meaning,… Continue reading

  • Philosophy Majors Out-Earn Other Humanities Grads

    It’s been said in many places before: A degree in the humanities isn’t exactly marketable to employers (less kind critics have called those degrees “useless”). But there’s one humanities major whose graduates are doing quite well in the job market—and… Continue reading

  • The end of Aqua Teen Hunger Force marks the end of an era for TV animation · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club

    The Aqua Teens had no mission, no reason for being. They were mascots without a restaurant, signifiers without any signified. At their core they were talking trash, parodies of commercial waste who actually became merchandisable characters in their own right.… Continue reading