A Clean, Well-Lighted Place with Everything Labeled
Many will recall the famous passage from In the Search of Order, where Voegelin analyses Hesiod's invocation of the Muses and how the Muses "remember" the gods…
On Behalf of Ignorance: Stefan George
Among the scholars, of course Eric Voegelin comes to our mind, and Hegel (rather as Batman brings to mind the Riddler), and among the poets, along with…
Adler, Hutchins, and The Great Books
In the 1930's, Hutchins had reorganized the undergraduate program at Chicago around a core of "Great Books" taught by the Socratic method. There were no electives. Hutchins…
Toronto for Beginners
The approach of our annual meeting and friendly suggestion leads me to a few words on Metropolitan Toronto, pronounced "To-rawn-to", also, T'rawna, and "T.O." A minor point…
Contra Gopnik
In the 7th of July 2008 issue of the New Yorker , Mr. Adam Gopnik published "The Back of the World" (G.K. Chesterton's 'The Man who was…