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Is Virtue Less Virtuous if Known and Shown? 

It’s all the rage these days… No matter the position on the political spectrum, folks go out of their way to illustrate their righteousness.  Dubbed ‘virtue signaling’, it takes form in the humblest facebook profile (whether it’s become the latest color, supports the trendiest badge or flies the appropriate flags), all the way to whatever

Apollonius of Tyana: The Pagan Jesus Christ?

By Edward Whelan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Apollonius of Tyana was a remarkable and complex person. In the Ancient World he was called a magician, a fraud, a scientist and many even believed that he was a divine figure who could save humanity. Many saw him as a pagan messiah and indeed, he was more