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What’s Behind the Materialist Explanation of Political Views?

By Daniel Crandall Tip O'Neil famously stated, "All politics is local." These days, it se...

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TAC Fiction Review

Let's call it the after-Christmas Merry Christmas issue (or maybe the Boxing Day issue). A...

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‘Cage Against the Machine’ – Buying Silence as Protest

British pop music fanatics are a cranky bunch. They just don't like Simon Cowell and his p...

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TAC Fiction Review

A weekend's worth of reading - short fiction, reviews, commentary, criticism, news and mis...

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A Cultural Think Tank for America

By Daniel P. Crandall You just finished another long day in the office. The project is ahe...

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TAC Fiction Review

"The first reading of some literary work is often, for the literary, an experience so mo...

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Finding Peace in the Shopping Mall

By Daniel Crandall I have noticed quite a few people dissenting from what has become, for...

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TAC Fiction Review

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Enjoy a hearty helping of links to short fiction, news, revi...

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TAC Fiction Review

Thanksgiving is around the corner. I'd love to get your thoughts or suggestions for storie...

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TAC Fiction Review

It's back to fiction with a taste of poetry, toward the end, this week. First up, is an e...

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Education as a Lifelong Process – An Academic Who Gets It

By Daniel Crandall I'm sure you've picked up a book or magazine article, started reading,...

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TAC Fiction and Poetry Review

Welcome to November. There's a Greek greeting shared between folks on the first day of e...

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November Is National Novel Writing Month

It's NaNoWriMo—National Novel Writing Month! If you've always wanted to write that novel...

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TAC Fiction Review

On this All Hallow's Eve, TAC's Fiction Review brings stories from today as follow up to l...

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TAC Fiction Review

Better late than never, I always say. ... But then again, maybe that's because I'm so ofte...

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TAC Fiction Review, With a Bit of Poetry

This week's Review presents a couple of mysteries from the Victorian Age, inspired by Mike...

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Professor Agnostic on Human Value and Lynching as a Moral Wrong

"[B]ehold moral relativism - the reigning moral paradigm in contemporary American academi...

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TAC’s Fiction and Poetry Review

This week's issue begins with the fantastic and closes with a great man of letters, who ta...

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A Torrent of Tall Tales and Tantalizing Tidbits

This week's bevy of fiction related links began in the belly, with a search for food relat...

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‘The Death of the Hat’

I was struck by the men in the photo above, gazing upon Cary Grant and Constance Bennett ...

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Moral Imagination in Literature: The Stories We Tell, The People We Become

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute comes to Seattle, WA on Saturday, October 16th for a...

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Catholic Medical Association Annual Educational Conference

The Catholic Medical Association is holding its Annual Educational Conference, Restoring t...

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A Prose and Poetry Cornucopia

A plethora of links to stories, excerpts, commentary, criticism, news and knick-knacks tha...

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Hollywood Bought Your Novel—Now What?

You've spent hour after hour, day after day, week after week fashioning your contribution ...

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‘Virtual Morality’ by Christopher Hill, An Academic Writes What He Knows

Virtual Morality By Christopher Hill Pushcart Press, 220 Pages, $24.50 A review by Mary...

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TAC’s Prose Fiction and Poetry Update

Neil Gaiman, in his obituary of the obscure SF author, described R.A. Lafferty, pictured...

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A Conservative Books Reading List

Young America's Foundation convened a panel on conservative books at the National Conserva...

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Weekly Prose Fiction Fix

For those who want a break from politics and public policy - from PG Wodehouse to Evelyn W...

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The Wisdom of the Common Man

A single question from an anonymous audience member stopped in its tracks an ABC News pane...

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This Week in Prose and Poetry

I'm still working on a pithy title for this weekly posting of links to short stories, crit...

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Moral Imagination in Literature

The Moral Imagination in Literature: The Stories We Tell, the People We Become - An upcom...

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Weekly Prose and Poetry Update

Upon picking up Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, this week's...

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Broadcast Audience Aging Faster Than Population

If you don't watch ABC, CBS, NBC, or Fox, you're in luck: you're aging more slowly than th...