Wendell Berry Goes to School

by John Murdock

If Baker and Bilbro succeed, students and professors will emerge believing that the goal is not to obtain a “good job” far away but to become a rooted, whole person. Continue Reading »

17 Sep 2018

A Crisis of Credibility

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Peter Wood on the chief problems in higher education today. Continue Reading »

24 Aug 2018

Renewal in Catholic Schools

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Chris Weir and Elisabeth Sullivan on the classical tradition of the liberal arts. Continue Reading »

14 Aug 2018

Medieval Studies and White Supremacy

by Mark Bauerlein

Identity politics seems to be having difficulties in Medieval Studies, perhaps due to the nature of the field.  Continue Reading »

13 Aug 2018

Aristotle Returns

by Tim Crane

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science  edited by william m. r. simpson, robert c. koons, and nicholas j. teh  routledge, 352 pages, $140 Raphael’s School of Athens depicts Aristotle and Plato at the center of a group of ancient Greek philosophers modeled on . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

Reno’s Books

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring First Things editor R. R. Reno on the books that formed him in youth. Continue Reading »

29 Jun 2018

“Diversity” and Discrimination at Harvard

by Darel E. Paul

Harvard’s “holistic”—or what the college terms “whole-person”—review process is hurting Asian-American applicants.  Continue Reading »

21 Jun 2018

State Irreligion

by Marcel Proust

When one is delivered from a duty, one is less free. Continue Reading »

18 Jun 2018

The Dangers of Common Core

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Nicholas Tampio on his book Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy. Continue Reading »

15 Jun 2018

Failing in Formation

by John Thomas Goerke

The enrollment drop in American Catholic schools—from 5.2 million students in the 1960s to 2.5 million in 1990 to today’s 1.8 million—is a plunge of Syrian magnitude. In the last ten years, 1,336 Catholic schools have been either closed or consolidated. Meanwhile, bishops have been . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018