A concise answer to the questions before us might be found in Robert Hutchins’ Preface to The Great Conversation. He writes,
Until lately the West has regarded it as self-evident that the road to e...
Books plant a seed of reality that can grow in us. The books that last are the ones that have found a remarkable form for reality, the instantiation is unrepeatable, but the pattern carries across ...
What makes a Great Book great? Suppose you need to change the distributor cap on an old Ford Thunderbird. In that scenario, a Chilton Repair Manual promises to be a great read—greater, perhaps...
In answering the question “Which books are great and why?” there is another question that needs to be answered first: Who should decide which books are great? And one of the nice things about this ...
I recently picked up Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery to reread for an upcoming trip with a “bosom friend” to Prince Edward Island, Canada. I was feeling a bit melancholy and overwhelm...
The reading, knowledge, and Socratic study of the ideas and arguments we find in the “Great Books” are at the heart of a strong classical education curriculum—but what qualifies a book as a “Great ...
