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A Place to Stand: The Aims of Teaching, The Good of the Canon, and The Great Gatsby at 100

The real work of judgment makes possible stability and repair, a work worth even one’s death, or, what may prove more difficult, a lifetime of obscure fidelity.
October 31, 2025

The Battle Rages On: Eric Adler’s Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today

We all want students to think critically and to reflect on what they have encountered in the course of their education. In order to do that, however, they must have…