The Totalitarian Temptation in the Groves of Academe
In his “Notes & Comments” column in the November issue of the New Criterion, editor Roger Kimball dilates on the truly daring nature of the new Christ…
Matthew Peterson’s Not-So-Modest Proposal on Student Debt
Everybody agrees student loan debt is a large problem. In the United States approximately $1.5 trillion is currently owed by around 45 million people at an average…
Does Classical Education Promote Diversity?
Though classical learning is gaining steam again in many parts of the United States, one common argument often made against it is that the promotion of Western…
Can We Save Our Dying English Departments?
Q. What’s the difference between a park bench and an English major? A. The park bench can support a family of four. Despite the jokes, English majors,…
Some Vagaries and Evagaries of Avarice
The image that always comes to mind for me when thinking about the vice of greed, or avarice, is that of Scrooge McDuck entering his vault and…
Justice Returns to the Sources
The Art of the Good. Valentin Tomberg, translated by Stephen Churchyard and James T. Wetmore. Angelico Press, 2021. Fiction will never really be able to compete…
Solzhenitsyn’s Continuing Relevance to American Politics and Culture
Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West. David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson, eds., Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.…
Is Online University Education Possible?
Is there anything better for a teacher than watching one’s students do great things? I have never bought into the rhetoric that some teachers use about “learning…