30 More Years of Rootless Professors
In the thirty years since writer-professor Eric Zencey first published his essay “The Rootless Professors” in the Chronicle of Higher Education, much has changed, and...
A Footloose Spring Day
On a gorgeous April Wednesday I am filling in as substitute homeschool teacher. We do arithmetic; we do a language lesson about adverbs and...
Education and the Way Home
Holland, MI
The recent dispute between Joe Carter over at First Things and various occupants of the Porch has already received a good deal of...
There’s Equality, and There’s Equality
In one of my favorite movies, John Ford's How Green Was My Valley, a family of coal miners is faced with the prospect of...
From the Multiversity Cave: Aquinas and Synthesis
Saginaw, MI
This post is part of a series that will explore what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university...
The Liberal Arts and the Educational Technology of Language
THE PRESIDENT HAS AN ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU:
This is what the bold text on the whitehouse.gov website tells us as it proudly heralds a new...
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...
Community among Academics: An Economist’s Retrospective
Two weeks ago I spoke to an orientation program for new faculty at Pepperdine. I shared with them what I had been told at...
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...
From the Multiversity Cave: Students and the State
Saginaw, MI
This post is part of a series that will explore what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university...