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Welcome Home, Quasimodo! A Tale of Two Notre Dames

By: Walter Donway

Setting: Present-day Notre Dame Cathedral. It is nightfall.
The great, long-silent bells toll, their resonant voices echoing across the Paris sky. Now, a lone figure moves among the towering spires, the freshly restored stonework, and the air is thick with history, with memories. Quasimodo,…
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OLL’s February Birthday: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. (February 26, 1671 - February 4, 1713)

By: Peter Carl Mentzel

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The Logic of Desire: From Homer’s Odyssey to Alice in Wonderland

By: Alexander Schmid

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Liberty Matters

The OLL brings people together to debate and discuss important texts and big ideas about liberty.

Early Spanish Empire in North America

By: Paul Schwennesen, Gabriela Calderon de Burgos, and Henry T. Edmondson III

Did a Spanish Enlightenment predate and influence later English and Scottish Enlightenments? 
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Ancient Legacies: Democracy v Republic (Greece v Rome)

By: Ioannis D. Evrigenis, Marco Romani, Carl Richard, and Charlotte C. Thomas

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Contrasting Views of Liberty in Hume and Rousseau (November 2024)

By: Maria Pia Paganelli, Aaron Alexander Zubia, Edward Harpham, and Elena Yi-Jia Zeng

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