James D. Hardy Jr. (born 1934) is the former associate dean of the Louisiana State University Honors College and a professor of history at LSU since 1965. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania. Hardy's specialty is early modern European history, but he has published works in varying fields from geopolitics to the history of baseball. Hardy teaches Western civilization, constitutional law, and geopolitics at LSU. Hardy's father, James D. Hardy Sr., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins; physics), was a distinguished professor and researcher at Yale. Dr. Hardy developed three laws for modern life from Greek philosophy. First, to live is to suffer. Second, for every important question in life there is no answer. Third, if there were an answer it would be love.

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