How to Make Good Americans
by Mark BauerleinChris Sinacola joins the podcast to discuss the new book . Continue Reading »
Make Catholic Education Catholic Again
by Mark BauerleinThe assumption that classical education doesn’t serve all students can only be made by someone unfamiliar with the Western tradition and the high place of Catholic thought, literature, and art within it. Continue Reading »
Distinctly Catholic Education
by Mark BauerleinDan Guernsey, a senior fellow at the The Cardinal Newman Society, joins the podcast to discuss literature and the arts in Catholic education. Continue Reading »
The Sorry Situation of Catholic Schools
by Mark BauerleinTo our Catholic school leadership, please: Stop listening to the mediocrities and half-hearted Catholics, and go with the true believers and dedicated souls. Continue Reading »
On Not Buying into the Mythology of “Prestige” Universities
by George WeigelSmall, religiously-affiliated liberal arts colleges do a far better job of preparing the minds and souls of students than the Ivies. Continue Reading »
Learning for Liberty
by Joseph ClairThe true aim of a college education is the development of a citizen: a free person. Continue Reading »
Guardians of Culture
by Mark BauerleinFeaturing Claudia MacMillan on liberal education. Continue Reading »
Teacher Appreciation
by Dale M. CoulterThis week is the time to show appreciation for the teachers in our lives. Continue Reading »
Polytechnic Utiliversity
by Reinhard HütterUniversity education delivers goods that are seen as commodities, as purchasable means to satisfy individual desires and solve collective problems. The knowledge it offers is a production, a techne that is a means to an end extrinsic to it. All academic disciplines in the late-modern research . . . . Continue Reading »
Jean Yarbrough on the NAS Bowdoin Report
by Carl ScottDon’t miss this. It is the best essay I have read on the liberal dominance of higher education in a long time . Nothing fancy, just the situation. Yarbrough, a professor of political science at Bowdoin, and the author of excellent books on TR and TJ , responded to her school newspaper’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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