Education & Liberal Learning

The Locale and Grace of Teaching

I’ve not yet decided if I’ve succumbed to despair (a sin) or prudence, but I no longer participate in any of the forums at...

Homeschool Community

As a homeschooling parent I'm continually frustrated by the difficulty of talking about why we do what we do. Homeschooling is nearly always portrayed...

Against Great Books

I make available, below, the text of a lecture I delivered in November, 2011, at University of Texas at Austin. My thanks to the...

Childhood without a Harness

Just a few days back, I arrived home to find a mound of muddy clothes at my front entrance and the sounds of children...

From the Multiversity Cave: Augustine and Amare

This post is part of a series that will explore what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university with...

Life Under Compulsion

In 1940, when the Nazis attacked their supposed racial kinfolk in Norway and set up a puppet government under the odious Quisling, the novelist...

The Learning and Limits of Libraries

Three articles recently caught my eye, all of which having to do with scholars' fame, only two having to do with their libraries. The bookless...

An Ancient Legacy of Form: Guardini on Mastery and Nearness

Our dwelling place is the state not of nature but of culture.

What Does the Boss Really Do? Business Education and the Liberal...

An address given to the Ciceronian Society at Mount St. Mary's University, March 3. At the start of each semester, I ask my MBA students,...

Catholic Education Today: Scientiam Viarum Tuarum Nolumus

About a month ago I happened upon a copy of The Concord, student newspaper of Bellarmine University. In particular my eye was caught by...