Squeezing Out Virtue and Beauty
Centers for Teaching and Learning: The New Landscape in Higher Education By Mary C. Wright. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 296 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. The most recent permanent fixtures on college campuses are Centers of Teaching...
Must the University Be Political?
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s By Ellen Schrecker. University of Chicago Press, 2021. Hardcover, 616 pages, $35. Reviewed by Ethan Schrum. Should academic departments and scholarly societies issue position statements on current political matters?...
The Classically Educated Mind of W. E. B Du Bois
Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois By David Withun. Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $80.00. Reviewed by Chris Butynskyi. Race, class, gender. These are three important components...
Why Beauty Matters
The Wounds of Beauty By Margarita Mooney Suarez. Cluny Media, 2022. Paperback, 232 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Elizabeth Bittner. What is beauty and why is it so important, particularly in the realm of art and education? Margarita Mooney Suarez delves into this...
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