Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica By Gabriel Blanchard What role should poetry play in education? The study of poetry, in our day, tends to be thought of as a difficult and […]
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Four Marks of a Classic Book
Four Marks of a Classic Book By Gabriel Blanchard What do we mean when we call the great books “great”? The CLT author bank, our version of a
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Tolkien and the Classics
Tolkien and the Classics By Travis Copeland Tolkien’s thoughtful criticism of the Western canon starkly contrasts with the fashionable attacks on it in our own day. In a
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The Great Conversation: Medicine
The Great Conversation: Medicine By Gabriel Blanchard Medical science has changed immensely in the last few thousand years—but not always in the ways we might assume. The word
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The Great Conversation: Logic
The Great Conversation: Logic By Matt McKeown Why don’t they teach logic in these schools? Logic is the name of a few closely related things. It is often
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The Great Conversation: Family
The Great Conversation: Family By Matt McKeown The family is a universal context and, accordingly, a universal concept. The family is one of the oldest institutions in human
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Disruption, or Development?
Disruption, or Development? By Gabriel Blanchard What exactly is #DisruptTexts trying to do? And is its strategy really the best? There are few questions as contentious in education
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The Great Conversation: Custom & Convention
The Great Conversation: Custom & Convention By Matt McKeown Habit is second nature. But what is habit? One of the oldest conversations in philosophy is about the contrast—to
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Don’t Cancel the Classics
Don’t Cancel the Classics By Tyler Bonin When we invited Wall Street Journal columnist Meghan Cox Gurdon to the Anchored podcast to discuss her editorial “Even Homer Gets Mobbed,” we little suspected
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The Great Conversation: Honor
The Great Conversation: Honor By Gabriel Blanchard Honor is an involved aspect of civilization, with far-reaching social and ethical implications. The idea of honor takes two forms. These
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