Education and the American Founding
While virtually everyone has agreed that the American founding and the generation that achieved it were extraordinary, of towering significance and formative importance in modern history, what…
While virtually everyone has agreed that the American founding and the generation that achieved it were extraordinary, of towering significance and formative importance in modern history, what…
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…
I asked my son, a lawyer and theologian, to comment on Obama's appearance at Notre Dame. He replied promptly and his comments are below. We who graduated…
What, if anything, does Socrates know about Eros? The Platonic Socrates is renowned for proclaiming his ignorance. His reputation owes primarily to several statements that he makes…
Is Scholarship a "Product"? New university faculty want to know what scholarship is in order to go do it. Not unreasonably, they are asking for a target.…
I’m not that happy with the “master teacher” title, bearing in mind André Glucksmann’s questioning of the so-called “master thinkers,” except in the sense that I think…