How to Reform Higher Education
by R. R. RenoThe relief bill offers an ideal opportunity to redress the harms of higher education and move our educational culture in a direction that serves all Americans. Continue Reading »
AM[D]G
by George WeigelJesuit secondary education is unlikely to produce leaders if its self-presentation brackets God. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousAfter reading Douglas Farrow’s “The Secret of the Saeculum” (May), I found myself unsure of how to understand it. Take, for instance, the following striking passage: Our age is a very definite age, a very well-defined age, precisely because it is bracketed by the first and second comings of . . . . Continue Reading »
Children's Books and the Christian Story
by Sally ThomasIt is one thing to talk about the Resurrection. It is quite another to see the Easter fire struck in the night, the candle lit, the light of Christ filling the tomblike darkness of the waiting church. As a Catholic, I live and relive that liturgy every year; every year it astonishes me as no amount . . . . Continue Reading »
The Problem With Online Learning
by Mark BauerleinAcademic content is now implicated in a technology that youths have been primed to use, interpret, and value for different purposes. Continue Reading »
A Win For Religious Schools
by Richard W. GarnettThe Espinoza v. Montana ruling is the latest step in a decades-long doctrinal evolution that is as striking as it is welcome. Continue Reading »
Homeschoolers and Ideologues
by Samuel D. JamesHarvard professor Elizabeth Bartholet seems to think that only public schools are capable of creating responsible, mature, informed citizens. Continue Reading »
The Idea of the Catholic School
by C. C. PecknoldCatholic schools serve the common good of Catholics but also the nation as a whole. Continue Reading »
Why School Prayer Matters
by Steven D. SmithIn his State of the Union address and elsewhere, President Trump has emphasized the importance of prayer in public schools. In one speech he promised “big action” on the matter. But just what action he is contemplating remains obscure. Teacher-led prayer to open the school day? Football players . . . . Continue Reading »
Happiness for All
by Mark BauerleinA few years ago, when a group of students at Emory University prepared to demonstrate against a controversial speaker, I asked a senior why they wanted to do so. She had a background different from that of the typical selective school attendee, a hard-edged one, and she’d already told me that . . . . Continue Reading »
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