“Sophistry” may not sound like the kind of thing that could affect our everyday lives, unless we’re professional academics. But the truth is, in the information age, it’s more important than ever to be able to detect bad thinking at a glance.
Sorting Through Sophistries: What Is a Fallacy? Read More »
What else is there to a conversation, besides who spoke in it and about what? Surprisingly, quite a bit.
Introducing Two New Series: “Sophistries” and “The Author Bank in History” Read More »
In fairness to Alice, judging by our recently-concluded tour of the wonder-land of ideas, we must concede that the books generally do lack pictures. Conversations, however …
What Does “The Great Conversation” Mean? Read More »
Many people don’t get nearly as much as they could out of their education, because they never learn one thing: how their own minds work. We’ve got a few leads on that.
The Study of How to Study Read More »
We mostly think of teaching as what a book or teacher tells pupils, and that’s true as far as it goes. But a great deal is also told to pupils by the things books and teachers do not say.
Education by Implication Read More »
Today, high school; tomorrow, college—it can feel overwhelming! Here are some tips for high school students, year by year, to be ready when application time comes.
Applying to College: A High School Student’s Timeline Read More »
From the history of piety, we now turn to its present and future; and, indeed, the question of whether it has one.
Interview With Katherine Sinkovitz on the CLT3-6 As part of CLT’s commitment to provide the best possible testing experience, we conducted a pilot this past spring of our
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The Great Conversation:Wisdom—Part VII By Gabriel Blanchard If there is any single father of the Western tradition, it is surely Socrates; and the only thing Socrates claimed to
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From its antique beginnings in Greco-Roman society, piety took a new and radically different shape in the Middle Ages.
