Reno’s Books
by Mark BauerleinFeaturing First Things editor R. R. Reno on the books that formed him in youth. Continue Reading »
“Diversity” and Discrimination at Harvard
by Darel E. PaulHarvard’s “holistic”—or what the college terms “whole-person”—review process is hurting Asian-American applicants. Continue Reading »
State Irreligion
by Marcel ProustWhen one is delivered from a duty, one is less free. Continue Reading »
The Dangers of Common Core
by Mark BauerleinFeaturing Nicholas Tampio on his book Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy. Continue Reading »
Failing in Formation
by John Thomas GoerkeThe 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 »
Dem Bones
by Paul V. MankowskiOssa 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 »
Introducing the Classic Learning Test
by Mark BauerleinThe 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 »
Teacher Appreciation
by Dale M. CoulterThis week is the time to show appreciation for the teachers in our lives. Continue Reading »
Dissenters from Disenchantment
by Mark BauerleinMonterey 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 »
Letter to an Aspiring Intellectual
by Paul J. GriffithsYou’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 »
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