Descartes

  • Willingness and Will

    A great philosopher–like Plato or Kant, Laozi or Nietzsche–does not give doctrines for memorization, provide answers to life’s problems, nor demonstrate proofs that will forever explain being human. That such has often been taken away from the greatest minds in… Continue reading

    Willingness and Will
  • Keeping the Humanities Vibrant

    My good colleague Robert Frodeman and his friend Chris Buczinsky take a crack at rethinking how to keep the humanities something that resonates to 21st Century students. In “Howl,” a blistering poetical rant and perhaps the most important poem of… Continue reading

    Keeping the Humanities Vibrant