Essentially Lying About the Left and Right
The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America By Verlan Lewis and Hyrum Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 168 pages, $99. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. In school, media, and politics, we are taught that people see the...
Why We Need Beauty
A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art By Michael B. Gill. Princeton University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 248 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. Now neglected in the Western canon, Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions,...
American Hegemony in Higher Education
Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China By William C. Kirby. Harvard University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 504 pages, $37.95. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. In September U.S. News & World Report released its much-resented but...
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