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Celebrated novelists, like Olympic athletes or Hollywood starlets, come and go. The post James Joyce and the Modernist Ambition appeared first on Ethics & Public Policy Center .

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In a new book, an eminent psychologist with an “unquiet mind” explores why it often takes one to treat another. The post Wounded Healers appeared first on Ethics & Public Policy Center .

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Opera has traditionally had little interest in Christian orthodoxy. So when composer Francis Poulenc wrote his masterpiece, Dialogues des Carmélites, the work’s celebration of heroic piety def...

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T.S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece. The post Out of The Waste Land appeared first on Ethics & Public Policy Center .

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Seen from our enlightened vantage, Nana might well seem the original torchbearer of all the brave new freedoms. In the end, however, uncharitable Nature undoes her. The post What Émile Zola’...

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The revisionist historians who cast doubt on why Truman made his fateful decision The post Why Were They Dropped? appeared first on Ethics & Public Policy Center .

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In America today, a moral chasm exists between those whose bodies and souls yearn for nature in the wild and those who need citified surroundings to feel fully alive. The post Nature versus Cul...

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To suffer schizophrenia is to be born again, into a reality stranger and more excruciating than anything you could imagine while sane. The post My Madness appeared first on Ethics & Public Pol...

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"Nature has accorded Chateaubriand a sacred fire; his works attest to it. His style is not that of Racine, it is that of the prophet." The post The Life and Times of Chateaubriand appeared fir...

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The original gross-out comic. The post Taking Aristophanes Seriously appeared first on Ethics & Public Policy Center .

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The suffering and the artistic gift were of a piece for Lowell, and he bore the suffering manfully for the sake of the poetic grace he was vouchsafed. The post Robert Lowell’s Fruitful Agony ...

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Dostoevsky’s prescient diagnoses of the Russian and the human condition have more to teach us now than ever. The post Sickness of the Mind, Triumph of the Soul appeared first on Ethics & Pub...

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