Rene Descartes

Obsessed With Success: David Brooks Warns of Cultural Decline

Nicole Glass | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Success, Reason, American University, Karl Popper, David Brooks, Synchronicity, Rene Descartes, Productivity, College News
Nicole Glass

This fixation we have on productivity is an epidemic that is destroying character and transforming men into automatons.

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Bachmann Denies Picking Descartes as Running Mate

Mark Steinberg | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Vice President, I Think Therefore I Am, Philosophy, Descartes, Michele Bachmann, Republican Nomination, Rene Descartes, News Cycle, Humor, Satire, Political Satire, Popeye, Republican Debate, Comedy News
Mark Steinberg

"Rene won't say anything until he can prove it, meaning that he'll pretty much always miss the news cycle. Let me tell you, if I had waited until I had facts to support everything I've said I'd never be where I am today."

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Paris: A Moveable Feast That Haunts

Richard C. Morais | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Local Food, Rene Descartes, Food, Forbes Magazine, Emile Zola, Paris-France, Fashion, Books News
Richard C. Morais

For some reason I am aching for Paris. Perhaps because my novel, The Hundred-Foot Journey, is launched tomorrow, and a good portion of the book takes ...

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Haverford College To Return Stolen Letter By Descartes

AP | KATHY MATHESON | Posted 05.25.2011

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HAVERFORD, Pa. — The valuable 17th-century letter was hiding in plain sight, available to almost anyone who checked the "D" drawer of the librar...

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Descartes's Stolen Letter Found

The New York Times | PATRICIA COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Descartes, Haverford College, Letters, Authors, Institut De France, Rene Descartes, Scientists, Books, Descartes Letter, Books News

It was the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents that vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800...

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Descartes' Bones

Russell Shorto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fundamentalism, John McCain, Enlightenment, Descartes' Bones, 2008 Election, Rene Descartes, Barack Obama, Politics News
Russell Shorto

One reason for the hunger for change is that the years of the Bush presidency have coincided with a worldwide rise of fundamentalisms: Christian, Muslim, and secular.

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