Can Liberal Education Be Saved?
Jeremy S. Adams. Hollowed Out: A Warning about America’s Next Generation. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2021. The 1989 classic coming-of-age film Dead Poets Society follows a simple…
Jeremy S. Adams. Hollowed Out: A Warning about America’s Next Generation. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2021. The 1989 classic coming-of-age film Dead Poets Society follows a simple…
For this semester I will be offering my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. By the second week…
Politicizing the classroom corrupts the academic virtues encouraging us to forget what the idea of the university is, what is its animating spirit, what fundamental experience it…
There has been a renewed debate about the crisis of higher education, particularly about American public institutions, although the nature of this crisis and how best to…
A recent essay republished at VoegelinView provided an informative critique of Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind.[1] I read Bloom’s book twenty years ago. It was…
Andrew Pessin. Nevergreen. Open Books, 2021. Andrew Pessin’s novel, Nevergreen, is a satirical portrayal of the cancel culture that has emerged in recent years on some…
Student Reviews matter a whole lot, one can say, that now more than ever. A student can complain to the highest authority in the University if he…
I was recently asked by a student group at my university to participate in a panel discussion about the humanities. Having been asked the rather loaded question,…
Mortimer Adler: The Paideia Way of Classical Education. Robert Woods. Classical Academic Press, 2019. It all comes down to wisdom really. In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle says,…
There can be no question of the signal importance and influence of The Closing of the American Mind. Any future historian who proposes to explain the “culture…
The word “homeless” makes it sound as though we are talking about someone who is having difficulty finding accommodation.[1] That is not the case and is very…
God, Philosophy, Universities. A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition. Alasdair MacIntyre. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. God, Philosophy, Universities traces the idea of…
Below are weekly, short reflections of teaching an Introduction to Political Science course a few years ago. Week One: Syllabi & Assessment The first week of…
I thank the organizers for inviting me to discuss our theme, how Christian faith can inform friendships in the academy. As I begin, I would invite all…
In the conclusion of her review of David Walsh’s book, The Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being, Macon Boczek challenges the author’s assertion that…