January 2018 – The Scholar's Stage

Vengeance As Justice: Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of “Eye for an Eye”

26 January, 2018Books and Literature, By The People, Europa Regina, History, Political Theory

William Ian Miller’s Eye for an Eye did not make it into my “top ten books I read this year” list for 2017, but it was one of the more thought-provoking things I read last year. Miller is an unusual creature: part law professor, part medievalist, Miller is equally comfortable discussing ancient Hittite legal decrees, the […]

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Modern Universities Are An Exercise in Insanity

14 January, 2018Education

Chronicle Review Illustration by Scott Seymour (Source) Christian Smith, professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, wrote a true but trollish column for the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month. He titled the piece “Higher Education is Drowning in BS.” His list of collegiate “BS” is correct. It’s also predictable. One does […]

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Every Book I Read in 2017

01 January, 2018Books and Literature

Image Source It is New Year’s Day, and thus time for my annual list of every book I read in the preceding year. By listing a book as “read” it means I finished the last page of the book sometime in 2017, though some of these books I actually began before the year started—in the […]

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Vengeance As Justice: Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of “Eye for an Eye”

Modern Universities Are An Exercise in Insanity

Every Book I Read in 2017

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