What makes for good leadership? Sophocles' Antigone lays bare the deep costs of tyranny, and why a sense of mercy and humanity make for better rule.
Author: Teresa
Tenuous redemption: Baldwin’s Blues and Carson’s Red
The whole and the fragments: a response to human searching in modern and post-modern fiction.
Why we still need feminism
Welcome to 2021, where gender equity continues to be an uphill climb.
Meditations: The musings of a philosopher king
Marcus Aurelius' journals from his time as Roman Emperor provide timeless insights for a life well-led.
To be themselves: Gender and justice in the ancient Greek canon
Proscribed gender roles have been challenged as long as they have existed. The Ancient Greek writers are no exception.
Reason and pleasure: The Epicurean way of good living
The ancient Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius takes a scientific approach to reason, arguing that your best life is lived in the here and now - because there is no hereafter.
Medea: slayer of social oppression and patriarchy
On civility and barbarianism, passion and reason, and the pain of the patriarchy in the domestic sphere.
Leading wisely: how benevolent governance can help society flourish
China's "Second Sage," Mencius, believed that benevolent governance was essential to happy, thriving societies.
Human flourishing: Aristotle on how to live your best life
Aristotle has some thoughts on living the good life.
The Symposium and Sappho: Love is virtue; love is divine
A glimpse at Love through the eyes of Sappho and Plato.
