The After Dinner Scholar

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Wyoming Catholic College’s New President with Pres. Kyle Washut
September 12, 2023

Wyoming Catholic College has a new president, Kyle Washut. It seems fully appropriate that Prof. Washut, a native of Wyoming who has been part of the Wyoming Catholic College project since before the

”Be Transformed”: Matriculation Address by President Kyle Washut
September 05, 2023

The college year at Wyoming Catholic College ends with the formality and pomp of graduation as we award degrees and bid another class farewell. The year begins with another, largely-forgotten ceremony

The Ancient and Modern Challenges of Technology: Nathaniel Hawthorne ”The Birthmark” with Dr. Virginia Arbery
August 29, 2023

Nathaniel Hawthorne begins his 1843 short story The Birthmark, In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who

The Ancient and Modern Challenges of Technology--Wendell Berry by Dr. Daniel Shields
August 22, 2023

A number of people, by now, wrote Wendell Berry, have told me that I could greatly improve things by buying a computer. My answer is that I am not going to do it.As the Wyoming School of Catholic

The Ancient and Modern Challenges of Technology--Heidegger’s ”The Question of Technology” by Dr. Glenn Arbery
August 15, 2023

If you ask any philosophy student which philosopher is the most challenging to understand and read, chances are shell say, Martin Heidegger.Despite the difficulties inherent in reading Heidegger,

The Ancient and Modern Challenges of Technology--Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Dr. Tiffany Schubert
August 08, 2023

As Robert Walton and his ship attempted to find a route to the North Pole, they discovered on a small ice flow a dog sled with an exhausted passenger, a man named Viktor Frankenstein.Mary Shelleys 1

The Ancient and Modern Challenges of Technology--Gulliver’s Travel to Laputa by Dr. Tiffany Schubert
August 01, 2023

In addition to being an Anglican priest, Jonathan Swift had a special gift for satire. "Satire," he wrote is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; wh

The Ancient and Modern Challenges of Technology--Bacon’s ”The New Atlantis” by Dr. Paul Giesting
July 25, 2023

Francis Bacon famously noted that, Knowledge is power. And the knowledge of science that then leads to the knowledge of technology brings enormous power.In his book The New Atlantis, published in 1

”Nature and Nature’s God” with Dr. Daniel Shields
July 18, 2023

[W]hatever is in motion must be put in motion by another, wrote St. Thomas Aquinas at the beginning of his Summa Theologiae, If that by which it is put in motion be itself put in motion, then this

The Ancient and Modern Challenges of Technology--Early Moderns by Dr. Paul Giesting
July 11, 2023

In the early 1990sa mere thirty years ago America Online was launched into cyberspace and the Hubble Telescope was launched into outer space. These have changed our lives. And its an odd parallel t