What should be in today's college syllabus?
Lee Trepanier
The corporatization of the American university is complete.
Dostoevsky believed that one cannot live as a full human being without a freedom that acknowledges limits in its striving towards a chosen ideal.
Maritain separated the political ideals and values of liberalism from its defective theological and philosophical systems.
Jacques Barzun’s Teacher in America illustrates the triumphs of good teaching and the failures of poor instruction.
Liberty Fund's Education in a Free Society offers a look at the promise and perils of American higher education.
While it may be a modest, middle-age virtue, civility is foundational to sustain a pluralistic liberal democracy.
Remi Brague shows how the modern person has made the human rather than nature the measure of all things.
Why not consider the crafts and trades of vocational training, the performing arts, or the service professions part of the liberal arts?