Bridging the Gap
By Emily Dewind “Attention ladies and gentlemen. Because of the Islamic holiday of Ramadan, an...
Category: 2019 Summer
In Defense of the West
By KATHARINE SAVAGE Where I live, mention the Great Books or the Western tradition, and you are...
Powerful and Dangerous: Men Are Not Angels
Men are not Angels Thomas Hobbes, describing a condition without government called the “state of...
Kings Who are Subjects and Subjects Who are Kings
In the year 410 AD, a new “order” for governing nations emerged, not from a king, but from a...
Bach to Thankfulness: Why We Study the West’s Greatest Music
By JARROD RICHEY The year was 1824 when then 15-year-old Felix Mendelssohn was given by his...
Luther’s Transformation of Western Civilization
“EVERYONE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS OWN FAITH, AND HE MUST SEE TO IT FOR HIMSELF THAT HE...
The Formation of the First “University”
By ANTHONY M. ESOLEN The first time I visited the Sistine Chapel, I didn’t know much about...
Christ, the Crux of Human History
By DR. BRIAN A. WILLIAMS “Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? … For Jews demand...
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD—A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA LOST
By LOUIS MARKOS Plato’s Idea of Standards “Behold,” wrote the ancient Greek philosopher...
A Brief History of Education: American and Classical
Classical Christian Era At the time this nation was formed, our population stood at around 3...
At Home
In my years as a headmaster, I had hopes of making every child understand the ideas of the West,...
Nicene Creed
Shown above: Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine, accompanied by the bishops of the First...
