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Anthony Esolen, a professor at Providence College and translator of classic works, is under fire for writing an essay critical of diversity. The essay, entitled “My College Succumbed to the Totalitarian Diversity Cult,” was published in Crisis Magazine in September. You can read it here. Done reading? If so, you might be wondering what all the fuss
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In my reading on past education philosophy, I have repeatedly encountered the phrase “furniture of the mind.” Perhaps the first instance of it is found in one of the most famous educational documents in history—“The Yale Report of 1828”—where the faculty of Yale College (now University) said the following: “The two great points to be
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I’m going to say something that’s heresy to many people today: I’m not a big fan of novels. Mind you, I don’t celebrate this fact. In his Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis noted that he didn’t care for the company of small children, but he considered this a fault in himself. I have an analogous
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It’s graduation season and many high school seniors are counting the hours until they can walk across the stage and turn the corner toward college and career. But as a new survey out of the United Kingdom suggests, those graduates are likely to be less bright-eyed and full of hope than graduates before them. Many
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Racial harmony, ever-elusive in American history, is proving difficult in modern America, too. Consider this story from the Claremont Independent: A group of students at the Claremont Colleges are in search of a roommate for next year, but insist that the roommate not be white. Karé Ureña (PZ ’18) posted on Facebook that non-white students
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Many have fallen prey to the everyone-gets-a-trophy mentality in recent years. After all, one must never hurt the feelings of precious little flowers who might not be as talented as their peers! One of the latest victims bitten by this bug is the revered Cambridge University in Great Britain. According to The Telegraph, Cambridge’s tradition
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