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February 3, 2021

Is the Past Just a Mirror of the Present?

Donald Winchester

Values play a key role in our understanding of history. A shift in those values may demand that we recontextualize the past.

Fall 2020

Can Capitalism Care About People?

Donald Winchester

Though it’s the world’s dominant economic system, capitalism’s excesses are drawing increasing criticism.

Spring 2020

Divided We Stand

Donald Winchester

Vision reviews Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes, in which author James Mumford proposes a way out of the political trenches that today divide the world into “sides.”

Winter 2020

Can We All Be Heroes?

Donald Winchester

The plotlines of popular superhero movies may influence us more than any political broadcast ever could.

Summer 2019

Making Money in the Shadows

Donald Winchester

We all live in a world of corruption, which sounds like unsupportable and irresponsible hyperbole until one realizes its extent.

Fall 2018

Looking Out for Your Neighbor

Donald Winchester Isla Veal

The mining industry may seem an unlikely place to find practical examples of the Golden Rule in action.

Fall 2018

Cause of Death: Sports

Donald Winchester Isla Veal

That sports, conventionally seen as promoting health, should be deemed a cause of death raises serious ethical questions.

Summer 2018

What Truth Is—and Isn’t

Donald Winchester

The world seems no closer to defining truth today than the ancient philosophers were. And yet we cannot do without it.

Winter 2018

Hope Without Change

Donald Winchester

Politicians often promise change, yet they seldom deliver. Still, we keep hoping that next time will be different. It’s a vain hope, and here’s why.

Summer 2017

Rebuilding Babel: The Megacities of China

Donald Winchester

China’s ambitious urbanization program stands out in today’s world. But a Renaissance painting offers a surprising warning against overreach. Can our cities fail?

Winter 2017

The Death of the Frog

Donald Winchester

Around the world, whole species of amphibians are dying. And it all may have started with a human pregnancy test.

Fall 2016

In Guns We Trust?

Donald Winchester

Gun control may seem a uniquely American issue, but at its heart lies a much deeper problem with global implications.

Summer 2016

China and the Future of the World

Donald Winchester

Understanding China’s current place in the world requires looking at the nation through a non-Western lens.

Winter 2016

The Injustice of Online Justice

Donald Winchester

The power of the Internet translates to the power of the people, and many of those people spend a part of each day in what has become a virtual courtroom. Is an everyman mob running amok on social media?

Fall 2015

Thomas Aquinas: In the Light of Human Reason

Donald Winchester

Was Thomas Aquinas a theologian or a philosopher? By most accounts he was both, and his blending of the two disciplines resulted in a new approach to the Bible and its teachings.

Winter 2015

The Propagandizing of Propaganda

Donald Winchester

Propaganda is about manipulation. But over the past century, the concept itself has been manipulated. Do you still recognize it when you see it?

Spring 2013

The Age of Vanity

Donald Winchester

Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the 1920s as a time of self-indulgence. That image is reminiscent of today’s world and of the life of King Solomon.

Winter 2013

Dante Alighieri and The Divine Comedy 

Daniel Tompsett Donald Winchester

Perhaps no written work has had more influence on the Christian belief that human beings possess an immortal soul than Dante’s monumental poem.

Winter 2012

“I Will Arise”: Charles Dickens and the City

Donald Winchester

London has changed considerably since Dickens painted cities in general as progenitors of social ill. But are his criticisms still relevant?

Summer 2008

Russia’s Identity Crisis

Donald Winchester

Russia’s struggle for national identity sheds light on our own need to know who we are and what’s expected of us.

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