Anchored: A Year in Review
Anchored: A Year in Review We’ve had an outstanding year with our own little corner of the Great Conversation. We launched our podcast Anchored at the end of …
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The Great Conversation: Hospitality
The Great Conversation: Hospitality By Travis Copeland As we gather to celebrate Thanksgiving, we enter a tradition far broader and older than any one nation or holiday. Hospitality …
Meet the Minds Behind the Great Books
Meet the Minds Behind the Great Books Ever wanted to get to know the great books of the western world? Our purpose at CLT is to encourage everyone …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Disruption, or Development?
Disruption, or Development? There are few questions as contentious in education as what the curriculum should be and why. As Charlotte Mason pointed out over a century ago, …
Top Ten With West
Top Ten With West We recently had the pleasure of hosting Ivy League scholar Dr. Cornel West on our weekly podcast, Anchored. An immensely literate man, it was hard …
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 …