How Do You Get a Civic Education?
How Do You Get a Civic Education? By Emily Andrews As CLT celebrates the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, we are taking time to reflect on the kind […]
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Great Works & Authors
CLT’s America 250 Reading Challenge
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, the time is ripe for reflection about what it means to be a citizen of this great nation. Although it is true that a republic grants its people profound freedom of choice, it is equally true that it lays a significant weight of responsibility on the shoulders of its citizens.
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How Education Impacted the Life of Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar’s rise was not an accident of ambition alone, but the result of an education that formed clarity of thought, precision in speech, and decisiveness in action—qualities tested in moments that shaped the course of history.
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The Secrets Behind Tolkien’s Middle-Earth: Myth, Language, And Death
A young scholar of philology encountered death face to face on the battlefields of WW1.
The personal losses he suffered were devastating, but he channeled his experience of death into his career as a master of language and myth, and wrote the greatest piece of fictional literature of the 20th century.
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Christmas in the Author Bank
Saints and stories are scattered over each of the twelve days of Christmas. We’ve selected readings from our Author Bank for each one.
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Twenty-Five Top-Notch Lines in Literature
“These days people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” What’s the value of a good book?
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Why We Read Modern Books
As society changes, art changes too; but these changes are not always for the worse!
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Student Essay: Achilles Atropos
Typical analyses see the turning point of Achilles’ character in his re-entry to the war. But does his character really change?
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G. K. Chesterton: An Author Profile
A romantic English patriot and devout Catholic convert; a friend of Shaw and Orwell and an enemy of modernity; an opponent of socialism and a staunch foe of capitalism: the paradoxes of Chesterton make an elegant closing flourish for our series on the Author Bank.
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Shakespeare: An Author Profile
Shakespeare’s genius is shown not only in his contributions to language itself, but in his power of presenting the emotional and spiritual fractal web of human life on the stage.
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