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Accessible and hospitable.

Myers considers four particular questions or misconceptions that many prospective students have regarding the liberal arts.

I walked into the makeshift classroom, saw quotations from McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers all around the walls, and assumed I was entering a traditionally conservative environment. But after a day of…

Tradeoffs we should not be willing to tolerate.

In trying to systematize relationships between words and humans, both medieval scholasticism and today’s automated dialogue sterilize the sources of human vitality.

The endurance of the building itself reinforces implicit messages that foster good character.

How school uniforms foster a common life in an age of fragmentation.

AI is a technology that eliminates process. It offers the grail without the quest.

The rift isn’t just about politics. It’s about pace, and place, and respect.

My mom knew that she could not transfer the entire corpus of Western thought to us because she didn’t have it. But she did have love

But the attacks on higher education are also part of a broader trend, which devalues work itself, especially work motivated by love

may they receive the many gifts the black intellectual tradition has to offer

The basic principle of education is that you can’t learn anything you don’t want to learn

it is through the arts alone that the various branches of learning touch human life.

It is not too much to say that everything in our culture pushes against habits

“Opportunities that were not available to some due to race, socioeconomic class, or gender became available through industrial education efforts”

If classical schools insist on banning AI in all forms, their kids will be left behind.

And Robin and I really hope that this book can be part of that movement to help people get outside the Machine, throw sand in its gears, and live as…

Instead of appreciating the local and the staggering beauty of our God-given world, as FPR suggests we do, the good life requires million-dollar jaunts into outer space.

Are we capable of that on a scale that will regenerate our political life? Perhaps not, at least for now, but we can take heart from the knowledge that, over…

To rush AI into the classroom or into daily life is to put student well-being at stake. And as Kingsnorth reminds us, refusal to accept certain forms of technology can…

The promise of AI is utopian and seems futuristic, but its effects on the educational landscape will make students nostalgic for the pre-ChatGPT days of yore.

Rather than forging a new identity, she returns to old paths. Moana is not following her inner voice. She is listening to the echoes of her ancestors.

Our need for privacy has been accentuated by the way we live, in which goods and services arrive seemingly out of the ether, things we’ve bought to consume, throw away,…