Category: Academia

A Hard Look at US Education: A Shipwreck in Progress? by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-10-25

May 5, 2022

       Yale University Tower                      Stamford University Tower                Harvard College Tower As recently as 30 years ago America was considered first in education, as per Paris-based Organization for Cooperation and Development, a 30 nation organization which develops the yearly rankings and criteria by which nations can evaluate their educational systems. That judgment is no longer valid … More A Hard Look at US Education: A Shipwreck in Progress? by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-10-25

Dirty Ties: The University of New Haven and Saudi Arabia by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-10-19

May 4, 2022

It’s a relationship of dirty toxicity, but these abound when universities establish ties with regimes and certain entities.  These might take the form of investments. Or they can become matters, somewhat euphemistically, of intellectual exchange. Certainly, for some figures such as the president of the University of New Haven, Steven H. Kaplan, an agreement with … More Dirty Ties: The University of New Haven and Saudi Arabia by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-10-19

A Guide to Ovi’s Imaginary Philosophical Conversations among Great Philosophers on Urgent Issues of the Day by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-08-03

May 2, 2022

I have often wondered how many Ovi readers are aware that the magazine, over a span of ten years or so, has published a plethora of imaginary philosophical conversations on timely issues of the day concerned with the past and future of Western Civilization; a sort of “back to the future” philosophical operation. Indeed, the … More A Guide to Ovi’s Imaginary Philosophical Conversations among Great Philosophers on Urgent Issues of the Day by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-08-03

A Guide to Sundry Essays on the Nexus Religion, Politics, and Democracy, as Posted in Ovi since 2015 by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-07-31

April 29, 2022

Lately I have been giving some thought to gathering the essays I have contributed to Ovi in the last three years on the theme of religion and its nexus to liberal democracy and politics. The ultimate aim contemplated for this project is to eventually publish those essays as a hard or soft cover book. It … More A Guide to Sundry Essays on the Nexus Religion, Politics, and Democracy, as Posted in Ovi since 2015 by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-07-31

Russian Literature and the Roots of Russian Exceptionalism: A Revisiting by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-07-03

April 21, 2022

“We trust and are confident that the hour will come when Russiawill rise from disintegration and humiliation and begin an epoch of new development and greatness”–Ivan Ilyn (20th century Russian Philosopher) “Russia’s mission is the general unification of all the people of all tribes of the Great Aryan race”–Fyodor Dostoevsky “There is no greatness where … More Russian Literature and the Roots of Russian Exceptionalism: A Revisiting by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-07-03

On Distinguishing Trolls from Symposia within Virtual Reality by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-06-10

March 20, 2022

On a monthly basis, readers of this particular on-line magazine of opinion are treated to a meeting of minds, so to speak, dubbed “The Ovi Symposium.” The composition of its collaborators and contributors  changes from time to time, but its original basic supporting principle is similar to that of an ancient Greek symposium: a group … More On Distinguishing Trolls from Symposia within Virtual Reality by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-06-10

Historicism and Self-knowledge in Modern Thought: A Revisiting by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-03-27

February 24, 2022

It is well known among philosophers and historians that Augustine is the inventor of the concept of the Self, but in 1976 A. Robert Caponigri of Notre Dame University published an essay in honor of the great Yale Dante and Vico scholar Thomas Bergin (in Italian Literature: Roots and Branches, Yale University Press) in which he … More Historicism and Self-knowledge in Modern Thought: A Revisiting by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-03-27