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The Hamilton School at UFlorida in a very short time has build a brilliant and accomplished faculty just by seeking people who didn't fit in at 'elite' institutions. High school students who want a real education should be applying to UF Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Ed The New Criterion @CLT

Case in point: we once had a truly brilliant applicant for our PhD with Latin Greek and other modern languages, fine prose stylist, first-class recommendations from well-known scholars. The only problem was that he was a priest and would wear a Roman collar. "Wouldn't fit in" was

Too many people talk about X arousing negative passions. I find it to be a test of verbal prudence (which is not to say that I always pass the test). "The man who does not know how to be silent does not know how to speak." (Bp. Francesco Patrizi of Siena).

Incredible. Throughout history, civilization has been built on a willingness to forcefully suppress the violence of barbarians, without worrying about “deeper causes.”

Agree. In history, military, diplomatic, and political history are dispreferred because predominantly male, and most history depts until the last decade have been trying to hire more females, who tend to shine more in social and cultural history.

Yes. Most hiring processes are processes of elimination. They require consensus from the committee. Anti-Christian bias is very strong (belief in Western religions is regarded as a sign of stupidity or dogmatism by most secular academics), so some committee member will always

Happy feast of St. Bonaventure, the great Franciscan philosopher. For his feast, the Church bids us read Wisdom 8:2-7, 16-18, a beautiful meditation on the love of Wisdom and its benefits. It was written probably in Alexandria 50 years before the birth of Christ.

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And why not? Clovis I of Francia was the first of the barbarian nations to convert from Arianism to Nicene Christianity thanks to his determined wife, St Clotilde.

lawliberty.org/reform-higher-… Harvard University Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard

My response to the Manhattan Statement on Higher Education

My magnum opus has arrived. Magnum as in 1249 pages, 800 illustrations, most in color, 75 maps, well over a hundred extracts from primary sources, chronologies and lists of key terms. I wrote Volume 1, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance, and my oldest friend in academe,

Official pub date is August 26 but I believe it can be ordered now.

There is an excellent encyclopaedia, The Classical Tradition, ed. Grafton, Most, and Settis, published by Harvard University Press. Recommended. This book however is a narrative history of a 2500-year old tradition.

I think Encounter Books is expecting individual purchases to be made from Amazon or other online booksellers. There will be discount deals from the publisher for course adoptions if I am not mistaken Encounter Books

When people talk about how the use of AI is going to destroy the human mind, I can't help remembering Plato's view that literacy was destroying human memory.

When I first tried to familiarize myself with Catholic social teaching, which was far too late in my career as an intellectual historian, the first thing that struck me was that the popes from Leo XIII to JP II were neither socialists nor free market liberals but were seeking the

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Hongjialou Cathedral in Jinan City. About 150 Chinese at mass this evening in 95 degree heat. The church was build 120 years ago by funds returned by the US govt to China from the Boxer Indemnity. I don't think the US would be in the business of building Catholic churches today,