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

Dem Bones

by Paul V. Mankowski

Ossa Latinitatis Sola ad Mentem Reginaldi Rationemque: The Mere Bones of Latin According to the Thought & System of Reginaldby reginaldus thomas foster and daniel patricius mccarthycatholic university of america, 831 pages, $39.95 A recent online video shows a math teacher expounding the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018

Introducing the Classic Learning Test

by Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with senior editor Mark Bauerlein. Featuring: Jeremy Tate, president and co-founder of the Classic Learning Test, on the revitalization of standardized testing and American education. The conversation is embedded below. For your . . . . Continue Reading »

14 May 2018

Teacher Appreciation

by Dale M. Coulter

This week is the time to show appreciation for the teachers in our lives.  Continue Reading »

10 May 2018

Dissenters from Disenchantment

by Mark Bauerlein

Monterey Peninsula College is a two-year school in California. Students in the Great Books Program there don’t want to live in a disenchanted world. They told me so last month, when I spent a day interviewing them and their teachers. Some followed up on email. Nobody mentioned . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2018

Letter to an Aspiring Intellectual

by Paul J. Griffiths

You’ve asked me how to become an intellectual. You’re young, it seems (only young people ask questions of that kind), and you think you might have an intellectual vocation, but you can’t see what to do about it. What should you do in order to become the kind of person an intellectual is? What . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2018