Making Sense of Our Dysfunctional Colleges
American Heresies and Higher Education. Peter Augustine Lawler. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2016. American higher education is in a crisis of long duration, and…
American Heresies and Higher Education. Peter Augustine Lawler. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2016. American higher education is in a crisis of long duration, and…
Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime: Past Principles and Present Challenges. David W. Livingstone, ed.. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. There is…
The Pursuit of Wisdom and Happiness in Education: Historical Sources and Contemplative Practices. Sean Steel. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2014. Aimed at primary and secondary school…
What Does Academic Mean? Two Essays on the Chances of the University. Josef Pieper. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press. This short book includes an excellent…
Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century So, my title is misleading. The basic content of and case for liberal education didn’t change when we moved from one…
In my essay, "The Place of the Humanities in the University Today," I reviewed some of the major critiques of the humanities and its subsequent failed strategies…
The decline of the humanities in American higher education – literature, history, philosophy, classical studies, linguistics, and foreign languages – is most recently evident in the drop…
Without question the Global Financial Crisis produced a noticeable degree of soul-searching on the part of business schools. The hard questions could not be avoided. To what…
I am not happy these days. I teach in the humanities at a Canadian University. And – unlike my more Protestant-minded, less eudemonistical colleagues – I think…
Allergic to Crazy: Quick Thoughts on Politics, Education, and Culture, Rightly Understood. Peter Augustine Lawler. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2014. Peter Lawler’s Allergic to…
When I received an email from Maria McMahon about her father’s death, I was both shocked and sadden by the news, as I had no indication that…
James Rhodes was a man of unfailing humor and boundless affection for others, especially his students, to whom he shared, over the years, his wonderment and respect…
Mr. Chairman, let me thank you for your kind words of introduction. Ladies and Gentlemen, I have to make a preliminary remark. I have acquired a grippe…
God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of Catholic Philosophical Tradition. Alasdair MacIntyre. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. In Ex Corde Ecclesiae John Paul II reiterated…
The beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman by Benedict XVI on his recent visit to England might seem to be a locally Catholic affair. Newman had founded…