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The Inner Ring of the Academy

Augustus Howard

In his 1944 lecture “The Inner Ring,” C. S. Lewis made a profound observation about social exclusivity, one applicable to today’s institutions of higher learning. Exclusion, Lewis explained, is...

The Unreasonable Man

Augustus Howard

Churchill: Walking With Destinynby andrew robertsnnviking, 1152 pages, $40 Speaking to his friend Frederick Lindemann in the 1920s, Winston Churchill remarked, “Far too much has been and is being...