I will begin this two-part discussion of the roots of humanism with an overview of its manifestation in one particular node of the Western story, in Renaissance Italy. While there were many important ...

Long before "alternative facts" made headlines, University of Colorado Boulder English Professor Katherine Eggert was studying late-Renaissance English writers. She focused on their use of alchemical ...

I have not touched a musical instrument with serious performative intent since around the age of 10, when I took my acceptable rendition of “Popeye the Sailor Man” at the local piano recital as a ...

Many people today think the definition of a humanist is the same as a humanitarian. They are not entirely wrong. But this conception leaves out at least one major qualification: in the eyes of the ...

A NATIONALITY is — well, what ? No one really knows. The scholars, of course, dispute ABOUT it endlessly. What makes a nation? How can you identify it? What factors comprise it? My own guess, ...