What is protest, if not the trembling murmur of a society’s conscience? Across centuries and continents, protest has not only ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

As a college senior, I wanted to be Socrates and approached people at the Art Institute, which to me was the Chicago ... You write that Socrates believed humans struggle most with politics, love and ...

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, ...

(Unlike an artist painting a commissioned portrait, Van Gogh compensated Roulin for his time with food and drink at the local café.) “A head like that of Socrates ... Gogh’s death by suicide ...

Every student of the Bible will be presumed to be familiar with the Great Sanhedrin that can be regarded as equivalent to the ...

Hypatia of Alexandria, born in the 4th century in the Roman Empire, was one of the most intellectual and respected female ...

After four years of regular teaching (during which she made sure to be in Hyde Park as little as possible), ending in 1967, she remained involved with the department until her death eight years later.

Jacques Derrida is one of the foremost thinkers associated with “poststructuralism,” a tendency in the latter half of the ...

Almost all of us carry the memory of a teacher—or perhaps several—from our school or college days. Some remain in our minds ...

A PDF version of this document with embedded text is available at the link below: List of Removed Books from Nimitz Library Released: April 4, 2025 Publication Title Subjects Date 1 How to be an ...