A call to move beyond polemics and renew the application of literature and rhetoric to public debates and cultural life. In these essays, Engell argues that a more complete literary…

James Engel (1925-1989) was a part of the generation of musicians who shaped Lutheran church music during the mid-to-late-20th century. As such, he played an important role in the history…

The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age’ reveals the extent to which writers now called romantic venerate and use classical texts to transform lyric and narrative poetry, the…

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) remains a larger than life figure, one whose influence on his time was as monumental as his legacy is enduring. To commemorate the tercentenary of the birth…

We can t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops…