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"Could the activity of thinking as such - the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content - could this activity be among the conditions that make us abstain from evil-doing or even condition us against it?"

NICK HAYES

 

Nick Hayes is a writer, professor and commentator for the media. A frequent guest on television and radio, he has also published nationally and internationally in newspapers, magazines and journals. He has received awards from the Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Program and also won an Emmy in 1991 for his work on Twin Cities Public Television's (TPT's) Television and Democracy in Russia. Today, he is a professor of history and holds the University Chair in Critical Thinking at Saint John's University in Minnesota and is a contributing writer for www.MinnPost.com - the premier political blog in Minnesota.

Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind
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He is currently working on a new book - Looking for Leningrad comprising his memoirs and essays on Russia from 1978 to the present. And One Fine Morning - Memories of My Father (2010) is his first book of creative non-fiction.

"Nick is a Minnesota treasure, the media's go-to guy for history and current events. Yes, Nick is a top flight scholar which gives him rock solid credibility but he is also a great storyteller, with the ability to explain complex issues in an understandable, interesting way. He is personable, witty, a terrific writer, and always willing to share what he's learned. He is, in the truest sense, a public intellectual; a great ambassador for CSBSJU."

                                           ~Gary Eichten, MPR

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