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August 18, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Harrison Middleton University hosts regularly scheduled discussions for the public as well as students. Open to anyone interested in intellectual discussion, short, easily digestible readings are provided electronically. If you’re interested in more information, reach me at as****@hm*.edu. Our most recent Quarterly Discussion …
December 9, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. As we enter the season of Scrooge, I couldn’t resist a comparison of Molière’s The Miser with David Hume’s musings on wealth. In A Treatise of Human Nature, published in 1740, David Hume explains that wealth provides humans with a unique sort of …
December 2, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I used to whiz right past any additional sections of a book. Focused only on main content, I often skipped the introduction or preface, background material, acknowledgments or footnotes. In other words, I used to skip a lot of text. I chalk this …
May 1, 2020 Thanks to Minette Bryant, a 2020 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. If it took me all of twelve days to complete Janice Hadlow’s new novel, it is only because my family and work obligations wouldn’t allow me to simply stay in bed until I’d read it all. I preordered this …
September 7, 2018 Thanks to Ben Peterson, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. Once upon two years ago, I met a gentleman who was raised selling illegal whiskey in the dry counties of Arkansas. I asked this man umpteen thousand questions, and he seemed genuinely pleased to answer them for …
August 31, 2018 Thanks to George Hickman, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. For most of us, we experience the role of an audience member far more often than we experience the role of an artist. On our daily commutes, our mood is at the whim of the radio …
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