The Great Conversation: Virtue and Vice
“All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.” — Alexander Woollcott
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Aesop: An Author Profile
Like Tennessee Williams’ Tom Wingfield, Aesop gives us “truth cleverly disguised as fiction,” conveying wisdom imaginatively and indirectly.
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Five Pointers for Classical Educators
Walker Percy said “You can get all A’s and flunk at life.” This is an ideal time to refocus on what winning at life means.
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CLT Welcomes Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson
A big CLT welcome to Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of Creative Writing at John Brown University and the winner of the Hiett Prize!
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The Great Conversation: Prophecy
The secrets of the past, the present, the future, and the transcendental all appeal to the insatiable human mind. The prophet claims to access them.
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The Great Conversation: Mathematics
God himself is regularly described and depicted in art as the supreme geometer, creating all things in number, weight, and measure.
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The Great Conversation: Life and Death
We know death is the end of life, but what is life? What does it mean to say that something is not a living thing? What sets human life apart, if anything?
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The Great Conversation: Dialectic
From Socrates to Descartes, dialectic was principally a technique of the mind to discover truth: Hegel suggested that the world itself is a kind of mind.
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Teresa: An Author Profile
It is easy to think of St. Teresa’s ecstasies and visions as alien to our experience — yet her mysticism was shrewd and earthy, not abstract.
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How We Learn: The Divided Line in Plato’s “Republic”
Not every individual lesson takes us through Plato’s whole “divided line,” but each orients us toward the next stage, moving from images to Forms.
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