Claiming the Classical Tradition
The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature By Angel Adams Parham and Anika Prather. Classical Academic Press, 2022. Hardcover, 272 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Sean C. Hadley. Classical Education finds itself at the heart of a serious...
Higher Ed and the Crisis of Civic Despair
Renewing America’s Civic Compact Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley. Lexington Books, 2023. Hardcover, 258 pages, $100. Reviewed by Thomas Kelly. For many 2024 carries with it a very real sense of civic despair. There is of course the “dread” that many feel...
We Few, We Happy Few
Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt—Paul Elmer More Correspondence Edited by Eric Adler. University of Missouri Press, 2023. Hardcover, 488 pages, $75. Reviewed by Justin D. Garrison. In The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk observes, “it is an ominous sign for any...
Learn to Read Early, Then Read to Learn for the Rest of Your Life
The Core Knowledge Sequence: Content and Skill Guidelines for Grades K-8 Core Knowledge Foundation. www.coreknowledge.org. By M.D. Aeschliman. The lack of effective early-literacy instruction in the USA and the West generally is the single most grievous problem that...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.