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37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024

Literacy Through Animal Stories

by Kathie Johnson

37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024

Reason Eclipsed

on Philosophical Schools That Eat Their Own

by Anthony Costello

37.3—May/June, 2024

A Child̕s Garden

Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child̕s Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian

by Robin Phillips

36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023

Black & White

On Lightning Clarity at a Divinity School

by S. M. Hutchens

35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022

Old School Beauty

On the Ennobling Presence of a Goodly Place

by Robert P. George

35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022

Empty Achievement

by S. M. Hutchens

35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022

One Diabolical Fantasy

Metaverse Delusions vs. the Reality of Body & Soul

by Boyd R. Collins

35.3—May/Jun, 2022

Whatsoever Things Are True

on the Philosophy of Education of Aristotle & Paul

by Wilfred M. McClay

35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022

What Do I Have That I Did Not Receive?

Reflections on the Unmerited Gifts I've Received from Others

by Ralph C. Wood

34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021

Not with Their Children

Hungarians Ban LGBT Indoctrination, Defying the EU

by John D. Martin

34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021

Sacred Syllabus

The Case for Authentic Christian Higher Education

by William Jason Wallace

34.4—July/August, 2021

Splendid Uselessness

Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz

by Thomas Albert Howard

34.2—March/April, 2021

The Thief

by S. M. Hutchens

33.5—September/October, 2020

Much Higher Education

on Christianity & the Soul of Liberal Arts

by Michial Farmer

33.4—July/August, 2020

No Option

Clear Out the Rubble & Rebuild!

by Anthony Esolen

33.2—March/April, 2020

How It Happens

Easy Descent on an Unguarded Road

by S. M. Hutchens

33.2—March/April, 2020

Christ Chapel at Hillsdale

An Architectural Sign of Mere Christianity

by Michael Ward

33.2—March/April, 2020

Julian's Shadow

by Donald T. Williams

33.1—January/February, 2020

Forbidden Lies

Speaking Truth About the Sexes Is Not Optional

by Anthony Esolen

33.1—January/February, 2020

A Vocabulary for Worship

on Taking Seriously Gravitas, Dignitas & Pietas

by Dan Sheffler

32.5—September/October, 2019

The Academy's Blind Spot

on the Limits of "Post-Colonialism"

by Thomas Albert Howard

32.5—September/October, 2019

Hail the Glorious Names

by S. M. Hutchens

32.5—September/October, 2019

Looking for Jacobs

Some Trivial Thoughts on the Study of Philosophy

by Graeme Hunter

32.4—July/August, 2019

The Habit of Community

Reception, Gratitude, & Witness on a Christian Campus

by Matthew D. Wright

32.4—July/August, 2019

To Spread His Glory

Four Theses on Christian Education

by Donald T. Williams

32.3—May/June, 2019

South of the U.S.

by Kathie Johnson

32.3—May/June, 2019

Light of Light

The Liturgy of the Hours

by Anthony Esolen

32.3—May/June, 2019

Young Adult Friction

on Novel Superheroes versus the Human Adventure

by Kristine Wallace Palmer

32.2—March/April, 2019

The Boy Genius

Finding Him Again Through the Patriarchal Group

by Anthony Esolen

31.5—September/October, 2018

Getting Rid of "Youth"

by S. M. Hutchens

31.5—September/October, 2018

Fool and Lie Makers

Public Education & the Secular Idols Replacing God

by Nicholas Nussen

31.4—July/August, 2018

Transgenderism: What the Biology Professor Must Say

by S. M. Hutchens

31.4—July/August, 2018

The Ironic Curtain

by Allan C. Carlson

31.3—May/June, 2018

Schism in Harvard Yard

Solzhenitsyn's Blunt Sermon Still Cuts Deep 40 Years Later

by L. Joseph Letendre

31.3—May/June, 2018

Literary Light

on the Craft of Creating Worlds of Words

by Robert Erle Barham

31.1—January/February, 2018

Intelligent Design & the University

by S. M. Hutchens

31.1—January/February, 2018

Ivy League Advice Worth Repeating

by Robert P. George

30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017

The Greatness Commission

Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity

by Anthony Esolen

30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017

Fatal Instinct

The Thousand-Year Gap in Nietzsche's Education & Our Modern Sickness

by Craig Payne

30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017

Letter to My Students

on a Charge to Keep Before It's Too Late

by Preston Jones

30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017

Discipled Science

The True Scientist Should Have No Conflict with the Christian Faith

by Thomas S. Buchanan

30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017

The Upper Stories

on the Importance of Narrative in Christian Formation

by Tara L. Jernigan

30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017

One Good Teacher

Why I'll Never Forget Pop Shaver As Long As I Live

by David Lyle Jeffrey

30.4—July/Aug, 2017

Education in Pen State

by S. M. Hutchens

30.3—May/June, 2017

Reclaiming Childhood Through Poetry

Rebuilding Christian Culture Among the Ruins

by Anthony Esolen

30.3—May/June, 2017

Professor Faustus

on Modern Education as a Deal with the Devil

by Robert Erle Barham

30.3—May/June, 2017

Wonderments & Possibilia

An Invitation to Look Outside the Box of Materialism

by Stanley E. Anderson

30.3—May/June, 2017

Campus Descent

Where Higher Ed Meets the Lower Regions

by Anthony Esolen

30.2—March/April, 2017

L'affaire Esolen

We Stand in Solidarity & in Good Company

by James M. Kushiner

30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017

The World in a Grain of Sand

on the Importance of Poetry in Christian Education & Life

by Bret J. Saunders

29.2—March/April, 2016

Campus Lost

The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education
by Peter M. Mitchell

by Graeme Hunter

28.5—Sept/Oct, 2015

Who's Your Teacher?

on Our Sacred Duty to Teach the Devil to Death

by Marcus Johnson

28.1—January/February, 2015

A Girl with a Palantir

on Education, Handheld Devices & A Young Girl Reading

by Arthur W. Hunt III

27.2—March/April, 2014

Poetry Above Compulsion

Higher Education Should Advance the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God

by Anthony Esolen

26.5—Sept/Oct, 2013

Christian Schools & Racial Realities

on Desegregation & the Rise of Christian Education in the South

by Hunter Baker

26.5—Sept/Oct, 2013

Hagia Sophia

on the Holy Wisdom at the Roots of Philosophy

by Donald T. Williams

26.5—Sept/Oct, 2013

More than Schooling

The Perils of Pragmatism in Christian Attitudes Toward the Liberal Arts

by Robin Phillips

26.3—May/June, 2013

Endorsement and Academic Freedom

Debates About Commencement Speakers & Student Groups Reveal a Double Standard

by John Garvey

25.5—Sept/Oct, 2012

Easy Burden

on the Blessings & Challenges of Homeschooling

by Graeme Hunter

25.3—May/Jun, 2012

Student Assembly

Today’s Mass Education Pushes Children Away from Virtue into Mere Hygiene

by Anthony Esolen

25.3—May/Jun, 2012

Knowledge Revival

Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education by Stratford Caldecott

by Stephen Richard Turley

25.3—May/Jun, 2012

The Way of the Class

on Suffering Education as a Discipline from God

by S. M. Hutchens

25.3—May/Jun, 2012

About Face

Why I’m Not on Facebook: An Open Letter to Christian College Students

by Steve Baarendse

25.1—Jan/Feb, 2012

Man Up, Lady Down

on the Demise of Ladies & Gentlemen in Higher Education

by Perry Glanzer

24.5—Sept/Oct, 2011

Leisure Suits Us

On Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture

by Ken Myers

24.5—Sept/Oct, 2011

Pupils Delighted

on Wondering or Wandering Through College Education

by Anthony Esolen

22.7—September/October, 2009

Except the Lord Build

on Education & Houses of the Lord (A Graduation Address)

by Anthony Esolen

22.7—September/October, 2009

Education Normal

on the Oddity of Giving Children a Moral Imagination

by Mark T. Mitchell

21.9—November, 2008

University Study

The Baylor Project: Taking Christian Higher Education to the Next Level edited by Barry G. Hankins and Donald D. Schmeltekopf

by Brad Green

20.8—October, 2007

The Pearl of Great Wisdom

The Deep & Abiding Biblical Roots of Western Liberal Education

by David Lyle Jeffrey

19.10—December, 2006

Faculty in Service

on Helping Students Love God by Washing Their Feet

by Harold K. Bush

19.10—December, 2006

Safe Deposit But No Return

My Fundamentalist Education
by Christine Rosen

by Dave Andrusko

19.6—July/August, 2006

Unfashioned Kids

on Companies That Corrupt Children

by Mary Walsh

19.6—July/August, 2006

Moderns Forever Be Holden

J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

by Douglas Jones

19.4—May, 2006

Not Harvard Bound

Some of America’s Most Promising Youth Are Seeking an Even Higher Education

by Terrence O. Moore

18.10—December, 2005

Untenured Radical

Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society

by Graeme Hunter

18.7—September, 2005

Fair Enough

on Secular Angst About Gifted Students

by Perry Glanzer

18.6—Nov/Dec, 2005

Lesson Plan

on Fifteen Principles of Christian Parenting

by Paige Patterson

18.3—April, 2005

Reality . . . What a Concept!

Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

by Peter J. Leithart

17.10—December, 2004

The Bookish Virtues

on Public-School Character Education

by Perry Glanzer

17.10—December, 2004

Liberté! Egalité! Académie!

on the Recovery of Academic Freedom

by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

13.4—May, 2000

A Student’s Garden of Terrors

on Fearing Rightly

by David M. Whalen

13.5—June, 2000

Just Sentiments

Emotivism versus Traditional Morality

by Angus J. L. Menuge

13.8—October, 2000

To Judge or Not to Judge?

An Address to Seminary Students on the Forsaken Art of Christian Judgment

by A. J. Conyers

15.4—May, 2002

Taming the Tempest

The Meaning of Classical Education

by Graeme Hunter

15.4—May, 2002

Becoming Aeneas, Becoming Paul

Hell & Dante’s Education in Love

by Peter J. Leithart

16.5—June, 2003

The Austere Offices of Manhood

on the Labors of Christian Fathers

by Louis R. Tarsitano

16.9—November, 2003

The Surprising Trouble with Harry

on Harry Potter & Public-School Moral Education

by Perry Glanzer

14.10—December, 2001

Passing on True Religion

on Islam, Christianity, and Moral Education

by Louis R. Tarsitano

15.5—June, 2002

Catholic Redeemer, Protestant Trinity

An Ecumenical Experiment in Education

by Jeremy Lott

11.5—September/October, 1998

Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp

An Essay on Myth & 'Real Life'

by Stratford Caldecott

9.1—Winter, 1996

The Century of the Cyclops

On the Loss of Poetry as Necessary Knowledge

by Steven Faulkner

7.4—Fall, 1994

No Place Like Home

A Personal Look at the Education of Children: Public, Private & Domestic

by Leon J. Podles

6.1—Winter, 1993

A Pagan’s Proposal

Moral Education for a Decadent Society

by Jeffry Davis

3.4—Winter, 1990

Another Sort of Learning

Another Sort of Learning: Selected Contrary Essays on How Finally to Acquire an Education While Still in College or Anywhere Else: Containing Some Belated

by John Thompson

3.1—Winter, 1989

Houses of Prayer

by James L. Sauer

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