• Shareable Snack: What ‘Dracula’ Teaches Us About Weak Men

    For most, Dracula is a novel about horror. After all, Dracula is a blood-sucking fiend who stalks his victims. But beneath the thrills, which draw all the attention, are some serious reflections about masculinity. Watch our video to learn more! Save this article to favorites

  • Reality Rejected: New NPR CEO Says 'There Are Many Truths'

    Do encyclopedias like Wikipedia or news organizations like NPR exist to tell us the truth, to inform us about reality? Perhaps it’s not so simple anymore. The recent example of the former CEO of Wikimedia and new CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, is a case in point. A pair of Maher’s speeches have been making

  • What Four Years of Creative Writing Have Taught Me

    In 2020, I took my first college-level creative writing class. It was held on Zoom (compliments of COVID-19), and I wrote a clunky 500-word piece that was, in part, about a bug. Now, at the end of four years of writing prose, poetry, and hymns, my writing has become (at least slightly) more sophisticated. Here

  • Ladies, Let’s Start Speaking Well of Men

    There’s ample conversation about toxic masculinity in our culture today. In some circles, the consensus seems to be that all men want nothing but to wield power and subjugate women. Of course, many of us know that this isn’t true of all, or even most, men—we need the gifts of both genders to build a

  • The Vanishing Hardy Boys

    Gone are the days of the Renaissance Man; the polymath ideal of humanism; man is the center of the universe and he should embrace the search for all knowledge because man alone has the limitless capacity for development! Alberti, the architect, painter, poet, scientist, horseman, and mathematician; Da Vinci, the artist, painter, inventor, musician, scientist, and writer;

  • Friday Comic: Childhood Associations

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