by office | Apr 22, 2022 | Free Content, History
Restoring the Catholic Historical Imagination” — my title for this paper — is itself problematic. Why should anyone want to restore an imagination of history, that record of what J.R.R. Tolkien called “the long defeat”? At first glance, ancient history...
by office | Apr 22, 2022 | Free Content
How should a Catholic think about the scientific discoveries, theories and uses that almost dominate contemporary culture? For some, science has such a sacred aura that any scientific report is accepted with a kind of false faith as “Gospel” truth. For others, science...
by office | Apr 22, 2022 | Free Content
In a series of imagined dialogues, Blessed John Henry Newman, one the greatest authors of nineteenth century England, gave an account of his University’s entrance tests. These oral examinations sought to determine how well potential university students could read the...
by office | Feb 23, 2022 | Archives, Member School Content
For some teachers, 10th grade is a dreaded age in the classroom. But not if you’re teaching rhetoric. There’s just something about teaching the art of persuasion to sophomores—those “wise fools”—that brings the adjective of that epithet to the forefront: they’re...
by office | Feb 23, 2022 | Member School Content, Quadrivium: The Arts of Number, The Fine Arts
I distinctly remember my first whiff of the ancient idea that music is a liberal art. I was probably 9 or 10 years old. My older brother and I were listening to some music (maybe a cool early Elton John album my brother owned), and he mentioned that he had learned in...
