Pilgrimages To Nowhere? – OpEd
In one of my trips back home after college, I remember my mother telling me, between half-embarrassed chuckles, how in
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Author: Thomas Harrington
Thomas Harrington, Senior Brownstone Scholar and Brownstone Fellow, is Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where he taught for 24 years. His research is on Iberian movements of national identity and contemporary Catalan culture. His essays are published at Words in The Pursuit of Light.
Articles by Thomas Harrington :
The Insularity Of The Academic Elite – OpEd
There came a point in my doctoral studies when I could no longer pretend that I could survive and be
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In Praise Of Elegance – OpEd
Recently, a New York City area elementary school teacher I know reported that, since the pandemic, a number of her
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Generational Dialogue In The Age Of Machines – OpEd
I was fortunate to grow up as the son of a man of great curiosity, an encyclopedic mind, and perhaps
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Academics Reveal That Water Is Transparent – OpEd
You might have heard that there’s a big new Covid book out from Princeton University Press, In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics
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Chorus Of The Poodles – OpEd
It would be very difficult to find a more Europe-loving American than me. For more than four decades, I have
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Napoleon: Then And Now – OpEd
As someone who sees Napoleon as one of history’s more prodigious and transformative figures (notice I didn’t say angelic or
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The Demoralizing Downward Spiral Of Algorithmic Culture – OpEd
In need of a letter certifying that I do not suffer from a disease of international concern, I headed out
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The Limits Of Transactionalism – OpEd
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to
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The Banalization Of Education – OpEd
The self-evident degradation of educational quality in our society today has several causes. But of all of them there are
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