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December 16, 2022In the previous essay I indicated that my search for the foundations of ideological commitments, having led me into a sustained, immersive encounter with some of the peaks...
December 14, 2022After five years of graduate study, I finally found myself teaching in a small liberal arts college on the Chesapeake Bay. The St. John’s program is a mostly all-required...
December 9, 2022Pretty soon after commencing the dissertation phase of a graduate program one finds oneself down a rabbit hole, and later in a burrow of his own making. The student is still...
December 5, 2022Reading Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind as an undergraduate in the 1980s made me realize my education was missing something important and generated a...
December 1, 2022Thinking about why we believe what we believe is not straightforward. It’s not as though we simply start from scratch and make a set of calculations, logical arguments,...
