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POLITICS
A Slice Of Apple Pie
By Yara Zgheib, Contributor
A constant writer, traveler, daydreamer.
The apple itself was an immigrant too, one of the earliest to this country. From Kazakhstan in 328 B.C. to Macedonia with Alexander the Great, on to Rome and with the Romans then all the way up North, to England where it got its name.
BOOKS
The Sky Horse Is the Limit - A Galloping Publisher
By Mia Berman, Contributor
Mia Berman is a writer/performer with a humorous, satiric poin...
Skyhorse staff meeting, NYC (l to r): Lillian Santos, Director of Royalties; Candy Rijos, Royalty Analyst; Ann Choi, Comptroller
EDUCATION
Teaching the Greeks and Critical Thinking - Part 17: The Greek Way, Chapter 6, Questions 1 & 2
By Frank Breslin, Contributor
Retired High-School Teacher
And whose word should we take about Socrates - Plato's, Xenophon's, Aristophanes', Aristotle's, and what about Antisthenes
POLITICS
Clinton, Trump, Aristotle & Other Fripperies
By Tom Alderman, Contributor
Media, Presentation and Speech trainer, speech writer and foun...
1) It's always a pleasant surprise to open a package from Amazon because you don't remember what you ordered. Teaching moment
GPS FOR THE SOUL
The Gift Of Grit (With Gratitude To Angela Duckworth)
By Jane Simon, M.D., Contributor
Writes a weekly blog, www.drsimonsays.blogspot.com
In summary, the passion and persistence of grit motivates and carries us over rough seas like a well-made surfboard. We can think of an absence of effort like a crack in our surfboard that needs repair.
TRAVEL
On a Grand Tour
By Yara Zgheib, Contributor
A constant writer, traveler, daydreamer.
Had I been an eccentric European aristocrat, young and male in the sixteenth century, at age eighteen I would have embarked on the classical Grand Tour.
TRAVEL
Icecream People Watching
By Yara Zgheib, Contributor
A constant writer, traveler, daydreamer.
... that a man could change tires all day long or drive an ice cream truck or run for Congress or cut into a man's guts in
WORLDPOST
A Wonderful World
By Yara Zgheib, Contributor
A writer, constant traveler, and daydreamer.
GOOD NEWS
If You Found Out You Were Dying
By Siobhan Kukolic, Contributor
Mother-of-three. Freelance writer. Blogger. Believer in dreams...
If you want to travel, book the trip. If you want to change careers, check out the programs at college or university. If
EDUCATION
Teaching the Greeks and Critical Thinking - Part 5: The Ethics of Avoiding Extremes
By Frank Breslin, Contributor
Retired High-School Teacher
As you go through life, look for other examples of people not observing the Golden Mean. This is not to say that the Mean
TRAVEL
On a Postcard
By Yara Zgheib, Contributor
A constant writer, traveler, daydreamer.
A postcard from the gift shop at the Musée d'Orsay. I am writing you from the table where we once sat, by the large window
POLITICS
In Defense of Western Civilization
By Richard Finger, Contributor
Options Trader and screenwriter
There is a streaming fountain of wisdom to be absorbed and enjoyed. From Homer, Socrates and Vergil, to Dante and Voltaire
ENTERTAINMENT
The Golden Touch Behind My Golden Days
By Mia Berman, Contributor
Mia Berman is a writer/performer with a humorous, satiric poin...
We've had the Golden Age; the Golden Goose; Golden Oldies; Golden Books; the Golden Globes. And now we 've got My Golden Days.
EDUCATION
Arguing With Bernie
By Jonathan Haber, Contributor
Educational Researcher
Now some of you might find my translation too charitable, in that you can think of alternative reasonable (even charitable
EDUCATION
Contradicting Bernie
By Jonathan Haber, Contributor
Educational Researcher
Let's take a look at a campaign artifact to see how one of the most important critical-thinking tools - logic - can help us determine if something we believe, want to believe, or violently disagree with might be correct or not.
TRAVEL
A Town Called Paradise
By Yara Zgheib, Contributor
A constant writer, traveler, daydreamer.
Just after dawn, we get up, without coffee, and let the dog lead us through a grove of wind-stunted trees, spiked succulents
RELIGION
The Bible Unlocked: Jesus and Christ
By Kristina Kaine, Contributor
Ms
To be fully aware of our consciousness means to consider it in detail. Human consciousness has three core activities: feeling
POLITICS
Polling the Golden Mean
By Jonathan Haber, Contributor
Educational Researcher
Let's not forget that polls only tell you what people are thinking at a particular point in time. But in a fast-moving presidential campaign, a lot can happen between the time a poll was taken and when the results are analyzed and announced.
POLITICS
Nostalgia
By Evaggelos Vallianatos, Contributor
Historian and environmental strategist
Millions of tourists from all over the world are visiting Greece every year. This pilgrimage started about two millennia ago when the Romans run the Mediterranean.
IMPACT
Foundation Launches Young Leadership Experience to Hellas (Greece)
By Jim Luce, Contributor
The James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation Supporting Young Global L...
Much of science, medicine, mathematics, theater, music and art come to us from ancient Greece, representing the highest of human virtues. This fascinating world of Gods, majestic temples, and stunning antiquities will be the experience of a lifetime.
IMPACT
Starting Fresh
By Yara Zgheib, Contributor
A constant writer, traveler, daydreamer.
A quiet afternoon, a darkening sky. A comfortable seat by a window. In the background, Das Liede von der Erde, by Gustav Mahler.
RELIGION
ISIS's Backwards 'Caliphate' Evokes Crusaders Over Caliphs
By Michael Shammas, Contributor
Writer & Lawyer
ISIS is a tragic foil. Despite its presumptuous claim to a "new caliphate," the group -- by punishing trifling deviation from its narrow Sunnism, by elevating theocracy over free thought -- exemplifies a mentality opposite that which fueled the caliphates of Islam's golden age.
CHICAGO
Why Trump Is Wrong on Banning Muslims
By Stan Chu Ilo, Contributor
Research Professor
Sure, America and the free world need to find answers to home grown radical Islamic terrorism and global networks of terror, but the answer cannot be the simplistic and bigoted proposals of Donald Trump.
WORLDPOST
Israel's Occupation Is Morally Indefensible
By Alon Ben-Meir, Contributor
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Affairs, NYU
Contrary to Prime Minister Netanyahu's assertion, the occupation erodes rather than buttresses Israel's national security and cannot be justified on either security or moral grounds.
GPS FOR THE SOUL
2 Reasons to Pursue Virtue
By Michael W. Austin, Contributor
Philosophy Professor, Author, Speaker
EDUCATION
The Bogus 'Philosophy' of Sen. Marco Rubio, Esq.
By Michael Sigman, Contributor
Writer/editor/music publisher
At Tuesday's Republican debate, Sen. Marco Rubio Esq. grabbed the gold medal for bogus populism (and crappy grammar) by proclaiming, "welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers."
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