McClaughry Memoir: The Reagan Years
The following is the fourth installment of John McClaughry’s memoir, Promoting Civil Society Among the Heathen. See the previous chapter here.
7. Ronald Reagan
Now let’s backtrack...
What You Need to Know about Dana Gioia
Dana Gioia has spent his career making metaphors: drawing disparate things together to reveal the breadth and depth of aesthetic experience, but doing so...
A Semester of Teaching Sustainability
The semester has come to an end here at Friends University, and students are leaving campus for their holiday break. Right now I'm grading,...
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...
McClaughry Memoir: Ford and Carter
The following is the third installment of John McClaughry’s memoir, Promoting Civil Society Among the Heathen. See the previous chapters here and here.
5. Ford and...
What You Need to Know About Simone Weil
Born in 1909 to secular Jewish Parisians, at age 10 Simone Weil was memorizing Racine and marching in labor union protests. She attended the...
A Message in a Bottle
Every now and then we hear of a lucky homeowner who takes down a wall to make renovations on his house, and finds inside...
McClaughry Memoir: The Nixon Years
The following is the second installment of John McClaughry's memoir, Promoting Civil Society Among the Heathen. See the previous chapters here.
3. The Community Self Determination...
Being Thankful for National Communities and Civil Religion, Sometimes
Amongst those Americans who believe that the civic virtues which make both popular government and a fulfilling independence possible are themselves dependent upon, to...
Are Porchers Urbane? Time to Wonder About Ourselves
As a student, I never trusted teachers who wanted to be part of student culture. You know the type, the teacher who wishes to...