The Truth of Beauty: Educating the Moral Imagination
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. —Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” These famous lines…
Liberal Education and Politics: The Case of The Tempest
Everything is Political Just as I began my college teaching career thirty years ago, the whole academy seemed to have accepted as axiomatic the assertion that “Everything…
T.S. Eliot and Christopher Dawson on Religion and Culture
“Eliot’s reputation as a critic of society has been worse than his record”—so wrote Roger Kojecký at the beginning of his 1971 book, T. S. Eliot’s Social Criticism.[1]…
A People Without History: T.S. Eliot’s Critique of Evolutionary History
While T.S. Eliot never made any comments critical of Charles Darwin or his theory of the evolution of species, he was quite critical of various popularized versions…
Liberal Education and Politics: Twenty-Five Years in the Academy
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…