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Emile: or, On education
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by Allan Bloom
The definitive translation of Rousseau's treatise on Education. As with many of Rousseau's works, the Emile is a controversial account of educating the young that remains relevant to current discussions regarding the purpose and method of modern education. Bloom's Introduction…
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God and Man at Yale
by William F Buckley
In 1951, a twenty-five-year old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude that prevailed at his alma mater. This book rocked the academic world and catapulted its young author, William F. Buckley Jr., into…
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A Student's Guide to American Political Thought
by George Carey
Who are the most influential thinkers, and which are the most important concepts, events, and documents in the study of the American political tradition? How ought we regard the beliefs and motivations of the founders, the debate over the ratification…
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A Student's Guide to Religious Studies
by Daryl G. Hart
The study of religion in American higher education is fraught with difficulties that raise important questions about the nature of faith and the purpose of advanced learning. Although religion has been foundational to some of the United States' most prestigious…
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A Student's Guide to Philosophy
by Ralph M. McInerny
A Student's Guide to Philosophy examines these questions: Who is a philosopher? Can philosophical thought be avoided? What have philosophers written over the ages? And why should we care? In this critical essay, these and other questions are posed and…
- The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders by Thomas L. Pangle
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A Students Guide to Natural Science
by Stephen M. Barr
Physicist Stephen M. Barr's lucid Student's Guide to Natural Science aims to give students an understanding, in broad outline, of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times to the present, with a primary focus on…
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The Dartmouth Review: Twenty-five Years of Being Threatened, Impugned, Vandalized, Sued, Suspended, and Bitten at the Ivy League's Most Controversial Conservative Newspaper
by Stefan Beck and James Panero
In 1980, disaffected editors from the student daily of Dartmouth College founded an off-campus conservative newspaper known as The Dartmouth Review. For twenty-five years, this renegade student publication, funded largely by discontented alumni, has made national headlines through its unique…
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The Skies of Babylon: Diversity, Nihilism, and the American University
by Barry Bercier
The contemporary university is a tangled and troubled mess. In The Skies of Babylon, Barry Bercier attempts to help us see through and beyond the ideological fog that envelops academia by beginning with a simple thesis: the university should exist…
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A Student's Guide to the Study of Law
by Gerard V. Bradley
In a society in which courts, and hence lawyers, have achieved extraordinary power, it is not surprising that the discipline of law is contentious and controversial. In A Student's Guide to the Study of Law, Gerard V. Bradley, professor of…
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The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay
by Scott F. Crider
A frivolous argument or inflated claim is often dismissed with the reply, "That's just rhetoric!" But as Scott Crider explains in The Office of Assertion, the classical tradition of rhetoric is both a productive and a liberal art. The…
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Recalling Education
by Hugh Mercer Curtler
In this searching and relentlessly logical critique, a distinguished professor of philosophy argues that the purpose of education-enabling students to achieve intellectual autonomy-has been largely forgotten. Hugh Mercer Curtler challenges prevailing myths about education; clarifies the distinction between education and…
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John Dewey & Decline Of American Education : How Patron Saint Of Schools Has Corrupted Teaching & Learning
by Henry T Edmondson
The influence of John Dewey's undeniably pervasive ideas on the course of American education during the last half-century has been celebrated in some quarters and decried in others. But Dewey's writings themselves have not often been analyzed in a sustained…
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The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College:What to Look For and Where to Find it
by Joseph A. Esposito
When Pope John Paul II issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae in 1990, he called for Catholic colleges and universities to renew their commitments to the doctrinal teachings and intellectual traditions of the Church. The response has been slow, leaving many Catholic…
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The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being
by Richard M. Gamble
Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition-the Great Tradition-of education in the West is waiting…
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Bonfire of the humanities: rescuing the classics in an impoverished age
by Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath and Bruce S. Thornton
With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline-classics-and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point…
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A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum
by Mark C. Henrie
College students today have tremendous freedom to choose the courses they will take. With such freedom, however, students face a pressing dilemma: How can they choose well? Which courses convey the core of an authentic liberal arts education, transmitting our…
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Arguing Conservatism: Four Decades of the Intercollegiate Review
by Mark C. Henrie
With a circulation in the tens of thousands, and featuring foundational essays ranging across the disciplines-from political theory, philosophy, and economics to strategic studies, cultural criticism, and belles lettres-the Intercollegiate Review has been since 1965 one of the central organs…
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A Student's Guide to Economics
by Paul Heyne
Paul Heyne, one of the nation's best-selling economists, provides an accessible overview of the discipline of economics. Economic knowledge, he contends, is not complete without reference to the totality of human society-a realization essential to a proper understanding of the…
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Essays in Theology of Culture
by Robert W. Jenson
Gilbert Meilaender says: "Here is evidence that serious theology is neither an esoteric nor a purely private undertaking. In learned, provocative, and innovative theological explorations of politics, education, and the arts, Robert Jenson discusses and exemplifies the calling of Christians…
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The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition
by E. Christian Kopff
The Devil Knows Latin is a provocative and illuminating examination of contemporary American culture. Its range is broad and fascinating. Whether discussing the importance of Greek and Latin syntax to our society, examining current trends in literary theory, education, and…
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A Student's Guide to the Study of History
by John Lukacs
To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past-to remain ignorant of the deeds and writing of previous generations-is to bind oneself by the passions and prejudices of the age into…
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A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy
by Harvey C. Mansfield
Behind the daily headlines on presidential races and local elections is the theory of the polity-or what the end of our politics should be. Harvard's Harvey C. Mansfield, one of America's leading political theorists, explains why our quest for the…
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A Student's Guide to U.S. History
by Wilfred M. McClay
No nation in modern history has had a more powerful sense of its own distinctiveness than the United States. Yet few Americans understand the immensely varied sources of that sense and the fascinating debates that have always swirled around our…
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Books and the Founding Fathers
by George H. Nash
In this volumne spiced with anecdotes and enchanced by primary-source documents, George H. Nash examines how books, libraries, and a rigorous classical education molded the minds and lives of America's Founding Fathers. More than any other group of political leaders…
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Start the Presses!: A Handbook for Student Journalists
by Stanley K. Ridgely
Start the Presses! provides a blueprint for starting a college newspaper outside the normal restrictive boundaries of today's college campus. It features anecdotes from actual students engaged in independent college journalism, and, because of this, the handbook acts as a…
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The Writer's Workshop: Imitating Your Way to Better Writing
by Gregory L. Roper
The Writer's Workshop takes an approach to teaching writing that is new only because it is so old. Today, rhetoric and composition typically proceed by ignoring what was done for 2,500 years in Western education. Gregory Roper, on the other…
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A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning
by James V. Schall S.J
A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning is an inviting conversation with a learned scholar about the content of an authentic liberal arts education. It surveys ideas and books central to the tradition of humanistic education that has fundamentally shaped our…
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The Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking
by James V. Schall S.J
In The Life of the Mind, Georgetown University's James V. Schall takes up the task of reminding us that, as human beings, we naturally take a special delight and pleasure in simply knowing. Because we have not only bodies but…
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Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
by Tracy Lee Simmons
Simmons first sketches the development of educational practice in the schools of the classical and Renaissance eras. He then presents a lively narrative of the fortunes of classical learning in the modern age, including accounts of the classical tongues' influence…
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A Student's Guide to Classics
by Bruce S. Thornton
Bruce Thornton's crisp and informative Student's Guide to Classics provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major figures and a list of suggested…
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Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge
by Bruce S. Thornton
A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America's tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton's Plagues of the Mind is a forceful vindication of the West's tradition of rational, critical inquiry-a legacy now…
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Civic Education and Culture
by Bradley C. S. Watson
What do we teach our citizens? This great Platonic question is as crucial today as it has ever been. America and the West come to terms with this question in the context of their richly diverse, technologically sophisticated, fundamentally individualistic…
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At War with the Word: Literary Theory and Liberal Education
by R. V. Young
R. V. Young examines the dominant trends in literary theory of the past thirty years, chronicling their effect on the teaching of literature and the imparting of a liberal education. It seeks to transcend the politicization of literature wrought by…
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A Student's Guide to Literature
by R. V. Young
A Student's Guide to Literature takes up these questions: In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read? Literary scholar R. V.…