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essays

Christopher Aceto

What Did Chesterton Really See?

Dynamic Quality: Fuel for the Long Road Home

Angie Allard

Moral Responsibility in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Justin Bendell

Seeds, Soil, Survival: Growing Food in the Southwest US

Elaine Brière

Fish Weirs to Sonar Screens: the demise of the native fishery

Susan Burt-Collins

The Concept of Citizenship in Early America

Michael Cox

Passionate Endings: Locating Felicity in Tragedy

Hive & Cairn: Communicating with nature through artistic intervention

Andrew Czink

Surfing the Disciplines: Experiencing the 7th Int’l Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Arista Dechant

The Psychology of Criminal Behaviour: Theories from Past to Present

Mike Donovan

A Defence of the Death Drive

The Good Life According to Mencius, St. Augustine and Krishna

Kathryn L. Feldman

What Barbaro Left Behind: Celebrity Illness Narrative as Inspiration

Renee L. Haggart

Jane Austen’s Minimalist Art: The Power of Objects in Mansfield Park

David C. Hilton

The Impact of Aging Consumers on Business

Patricia Kelly

On Recognizing Beauty

Vinit Khosla

The Ethics and Politics of Climate Change

Sandra Lockwood

Speaking to the Dead: a Study of Yasunari Kawabata’s Short Story

Amanda Nelson

The Meaning of Knowledge from a Liberal Studies Perspective

Shelly Nixon

Personifying Tragedy

Nuclear Weapons: the World’s Greatest Threat to Peace

Sandy Penn

Taking Care of the Earth Body: Using the metaphor of illness to approach environmental issues

Corey Sampson

Is the Republican Party Still the Anti-Slavery  Party?

Aaron Sommers

Why Leo Tolstoy Wouldn’t Supersize It

Billy Thompson

Surfacing Culture’s ‘Unconscious Optics: Film and seeing more of the picture

Carol Tulpar

The Empowering Journey: a personal essay

The Shape of the Universe (poem)

Stabilizing Self and Society: the Third Leg of the Stool

Joseph Yumang

Corruptions of the American Dream: Wealth, Power, and Fame

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editorials and reviews

Bittersweet: a review

Conversations: a review

Flow

Sound Reasons

On Not Reading Ulysses

Welcome Back

On Ian Hacking, Canadian philosopher

Mockingbird and Jim Crow (a review)

Extraordinary Painter (a review)

Stanford Symposium 2009

Promoting Liberal Arts

On Astonishment

Open Source Learning

Good Writing Shouldn’t Rust

Out of Sync

A Successful Start