If you've paid attention to your local school board over the last couple of years, you would think that there is an epidemic of children rebelling against their parents by the reading of books. Even your local public library boards are seeing their share of the action. Challenges to books in classrooms, school libraries, and […]
At this point, the election is over. Everyone will have had the time to relieve the stress brought on by another turbulent presidential campaign season, right? Everyone will be ready to engage in calm, rational conversation about politics and its issues, right? We're about to find out. Drink and Thinks are free and open to […]
This will be the 2nd annual Dickens event, beginning last year with "Why we should read Dickens?" We'll focus this year's conversation around the holiday classic, A Christmas Carol. Once again, Denton's own Dickens' scholar extraordinaire, Dr. J. Don Vann. Drink and Think is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to reserve your spot.
It has inspired great symphonies, timeless stories, and iconic works of art. Pursuit or loss of it has also fueled revenge, tragedy, and bloodshed. It gets us out of bed, drives us to greatness and craziness, and makes us need a drink most days. What is this thing that underlies so much of who we […]
We've been warned by Scorates that "the unexamined life is not worth living." yet it is not clear that we spend much time in such an examination. Everyone, at least it seems, is striving after something that they perceive to be the good life. Is there something to aim for that is better than other […]
We had a polarizing presidential election not too long ago. By the time we gather for this evening, our city will have gone through yet another contentious city council election. All of which inevitably surface plenty of ideas, opinions, and slogans that dance around some attempted answer to the question: what is the good society? […]
