At times our more privileged campuses can seem stuck in the world of archaic religion. Only those with an approved identity status are, like shamans, allowed to speak on certain matters.
~ Mark Lilla
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Monthly Archives: June 2025
Happy Icelandic National Day
Wishing all of our Icelandic readers a Happy þjóðhátíðardagur.
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Campus Life at the
University of Aberdeen
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This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.
~ Charlie Chaplin
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Campus Life at
Illinois Tech
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My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.
~ Richard Rorty
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Campus Life at the
University of Lethbridge
Learning Object
via David Allen
[Twitter] @gtdguy
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Every one admits how praiseworthy it is in a prince to keep faith, and to live with integrity and not with craft. Nevertheless our experience has been that those princes who have done great things have held good faith of little account, and have known how to circumvent the intellect of men by craft, and in the end have overcome those who have relied on their word.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Xi Jinping was born
on this day in 1953
Chinese President Xi Jinping was born in Beijing on June 15, 1953.
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