An Augustinian among the Straussians
The Rise and Fall of Rational Control: The History of Modern Political Philosophy (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2026) Several years ago, I attended a conference devoted to the…
The Rise and Fall of Rational Control: The History of Modern Political Philosophy (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2026) Several years ago, I attended a conference devoted to the…
100 years ago, Allen Oscar Hansen, a professor at Columbia University’s prestigious Teacher’s College, published what he called an exposition of sources and a source book entitled Liberalism and American…
doctrina sed vim promovet insitam rectique cultus pectora roborant; utcumque defecere mores, indecorant bene nata culpae. —Horace Carmina 4.4 Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists…
Introduction In the conclusion to his piece on the Christian classical education movement’s desperate need to rediscover its Ciceronian roots, Carl Young notes that—contra many a breezy conflation of ‘Athens…
