Poetry
As is fitting, much of the poetry in our spring edition of Ad Fontes deals with beginnings. First, we have the great privilege of publishing two new poems by Donald…
Classical Education in the Protestant Tradition
As is fitting, much of the poetry in our spring edition of Ad Fontes deals with beginnings. First, we have the great privilege of publishing two new poems by Donald…
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…
There is a genre of literature that has long performed the useful office of mocking the best that has been thought and said in the world. Wherever lofty ideas have…
I grew up in a part of America known as “the grass seed capital of the world,” Oregon’s Willamette Valley. I learned my religion in the small community churches my…
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…
To longtime readers of Ad Fontes, thank you for supporting us through a long hiatus and much transition. To newcomers, welcome! This relaunch of the publication reaches ‘back to the…
