Educating For Liberty
by Peter J. LeithartEducation is genuinely liberal—education for freedom—only if it’s willing to conduct students away from self-love to proper objects of love. Continue Reading »
Education is genuinely liberal—education for freedom—only if it’s willing to conduct students away from self-love to proper objects of love. Continue Reading »
The promise of critical thinking often fails to deliver. Continue Reading »
Contrast in educational philosophies could be the difference between a free society and one dominated by gulags, whether of the Siberian or university variety. Continue Reading »
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 »
Featuring Peter Wood on the chief problems in higher education today. Continue Reading »
Featuring Chris Weir and Elisabeth Sullivan on the classical tradition of the liberal arts. Continue Reading »
Identity politics seems to be having difficulties in Medieval Studies, perhaps due to the nature of the field. Continue Reading »
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 »
Featuring First Things editor R. R. Reno on the books that formed him in youth. Continue Reading »
Harvard’s “holistic”—or what the college terms “whole-person”—review process is hurting Asian-American applicants. Continue Reading »