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 ...
This mischievous question tempts me to rush in spouting names of books across genre and subject matter, feverishly defending their inclusion through appeals to a potentially idiosyncratic understan...
My journey into the realm of studying and teaching Great Books has been a profound and challenging one, initiated by my parents' endeavor to establish a classical school in the early 2000s. Witnes...
The question of what makes a work of art great is both mysterious and obvious. When we see Da Vinciʼs paintings and compare them to the practice exercises produced in a high school art class, we do...
