Today’s Classical Education Is Worth Pursuing Even If It’s Not Precisely Recreating The Past
Classical education is not at the mercy of our culture. Instead, it has the potential to shape a new culture that is anchored in reality.
Fixing Higher Education Starts With More Teaching And Less Research
Professor Richard Vedder’s book, ‘Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America,’ offers some valuable critiques of the failures of higher education, although the book’s perspective is at times narrow.
This College President Is Willing To Tell You College Isn’t For Everyone
‘Everybody should have an opportunity to learn all they want to,’ says Hillsdale College’s Larry Arnn, “but the idea that everybody should get a college education… can only be true if college means a wide variety of things.’
Why We Need Poetry And Literature To Teach Us Practical Philosophy
On this episode of the Federalist Radio Hour, Ben Domenech and Matthew Mehan discuss young adult literature, Harry Potter, and high lessons in popular art.
The Humanities Degree Is Dying, And That’s A Good Thing
As artificial intelligence advances and the humanities decline, we need to consider how to create meaningful connection in a digital world.
Why Genuine Liberal Arts Degrees Are A Perfect Fit For Today’s Uncertain Economy
In today’s dynamic, creative economy, a liberal arts education empowers students with the tools to be resourceful, practical, and adaptable in addressing challenges in many professions.
Harvard Professor Accidentally Illustrates How His Kind Has Destroyed The Humanities
Harvard’s James Simpson and likeminded scholars have selectively wielded their theoretical chainsaws to disfigure the humanities into hideous totems of ideology and politics.
What Shakespeare Teaches About Statesmen and the Way They Lead
How is Shakespeare is still applicable to pop culture and what does his work teach our statesmen and community leaders?
Stanford Students Fight Campus Iconoclasts For Western Civilization
This year, the barbarians have been raging within our nation’s leading institutions of ‘higher’ education. Now among the young have arisen champions of Western civilization.
School Is About Freedom, Marco Rubio, Not Just Money
Republicans including Marco Rubio parrot leftist lines about how education’s ultimate goal is money. It needs to be a great deal more than that if our republic is to survive.
How Liberal Education Became Illiberal
Nowadays, the liberal arts mean nothing. That’s why they’re so destructive.
What Marco Rubio Actually Got Wrong About Philosophers
Marco Rubio really needs to take a seminar on Aristotle.
How To Travel Well On A Budget
Westerners often travel to assert their cultural hegemony. Instead, try some humility.
In The Common Core Era, Families Flock To Its Opposite
Classical education has been growing inside the United States for several decades. Common Core’s entrance into public and private education has only accelerated the trend.
Seven Liberal Pieties That Only the Right Still Believes
How is it that ideas that used to be pieties in the liberal catechism now get you labeled as a howling reactionary?
The Liberal Arts Are Dead; Long Live STEM
Liberals have killed the liberal arts. Get a science or math degree instead.
What Death Has To Say To Today’s Graduates
The easier society makes it to live, the harder it becomes to confront death. But doing so will make for a better life.
Why Conservatives Dislike What Passes For The Liberal Arts
What universities sell as the liberal arts, an education fit for a free people, instead limits young people’s thinking.
What Gov. Scott Walker Misses About Higher Education
Most Republican leaders, including potential presidential candidate Scott Walker, don’t understand that focusing college solely on careers serves leftism.
From Fake Rapes To Petty ‘Microaggressions,’ American Colleges Have Lost Their Way
U.S. colleges foster and encourage lynch mobs and thought police in place of actual education. It’s time for serious reform.
John Bolton Admits Last-Minute Impeachment Leak Was A Publicity StuntJohn Bolton said Wednesday during a university forum wicontinue reading >- Why Ryan Newman Crashed—And Why He SurvivedParadoxically, because big wrecks have become a part ofcontinue reading >
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