False Counsel at Fordham

by Sebastian Alvarez

Except for a few open-minded and faithful people, Fordham is uninterested in helping students follow what Christ and His Church teach about love and sexuality.  Continue Reading »

8 Jan 2019

Recovering the Moral Imagination

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Robert Jackson of Great Hearts Academies on classical education.  Continue Reading »

4 Jan 2019

Wonder Is Critical

by Randy Boyagoda

I finished teaching a university course in faith and ideas a little while ago by administering individual oral exams to forty first-year students. The exams took place in a hotel bar overlooking a volcanic lake. The pope’s summer palace shone in the distance, and the Mediterranean gleamed . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2019

The Virgin Whore and the Humorless Don

by John William Sullivan

Emma Maggie Solberg's The Virgin Whore spends far too much time taking bad jokes and strained wordplay too seriously, and too little time taking basic theology seriously enough. Continue Reading »

20 Dec 2018

Victory at Veritas

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Keith Nix on classical education and the work of the Veritas School in Richmond, Virginia. Continue Reading »

30 Nov 2018

Campus Confidential

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Jacques Berlinerblau on his latest book, Campus Confidential: How College Works, or Doesn’t, for Professors, Parents, and Students. Continue Reading »

16 Nov 2018

Mothers Against Macron

by Joy Pullmann

#PostcardsForMacron is the kind of celebratory, life-affirming message all women need to hear. Continue Reading »

15 Nov 2018

Guardians of Culture

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Claudia MacMillan on liberal education. Continue Reading »

9 Nov 2018

Briefly Noted

by Various

On Reading Well:  Finding the Good Life through Great Books by karen swallow prior brazos, 272 pages, $19.99 In On Reading Well, Liberty University English professor Karen Swallow Prior sets forth a thoughtful, nuanced vision of the relationship between morality and literature. This vision . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

The Bookish Life

by Joseph Epstein

The village idiot of the shtetl of Frampol was offered the job of waiting at the village gates to greet the arrival of the Messiah. “The pay isn’t great,” he was told, “but the work is steady.” The same might be said about the conditions of the bookish life: low pay but steady . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018