Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Eric Voegelin
In my last essay about teaching in an age of ideology, I proposed that one needs to illuminate to students about how to live according to the…
In my last essay about teaching in an age of ideology, I proposed that one needs to illuminate to students about how to live according to the…
Michael Henry, in his contribution to this volume, reports on the experience of James Rhodes, whose life changed when, as an undergraduate at the University of Notre…
What does it mean to teach in an age of ideology? At first glance, especially for conservatives, the answer appears to be obvious: to advocate for conservative…
Education supplies all other industries, including those concerned with the government and the defense of the country. If the educational industry falters it necessarily follows the whole…
Italian Modernities: Competing Narratives of Nationhood. Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn Thomassen. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016. In his seminal article, “Multiple Modernities in an Age of Globalization,” Shmuel…
After retiring early from my career as an independent consultant and returning to a career as an independent scholar, I have frequently reflected on my experience and…
Everything is Political Just as I began my college teaching career twenty-five years ago, the whole academy seemed to have accepted as axiomatic the assertion that “Everything…
In seeking to explain the evolution of the American democracy, historians typically give great emphasis to the step-by-step enlargement of the franchise to vote. Thus, the expansion…
The study of history is a rigorous intellectual enterprise. A student researching and writing about the past must sift through multiple pieces of evidence, grasp an event’s…
Josef Pieper is best known in this country for his work, Leisure as the Basis of Culture, and its companion essay, The Philosophical Act, published as one…
A Political Companion to Flannery O’Connor. Henry T. Edmondson, ed. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2017. Readers familiar with The Habit of Being, the collected correspondence…
By “liberal education” I refer to two competing things which have been in tension since the ancient world, both of which have traveled under the label “liberal…
The foundational texts and practices of the liberal arts developed in a classicist culture valuing logic, universality, essentialism, and an unchanging human nature with its corresponding account…
Commenting in 1940 about the perspective that had given modern education its fundamentally secular character, the sociologist Florian Znankecki spoke of “the deeply stimulating conviction that man,…
Conversation and the “Turning Around of the Soul” One of the common criticisms of the contemporary university is that it lacks individuals unwilling or incapable of conversing.…