Though there will always be some dispute as to what books belong on the list of Great Books, no one who believes that such books exist will dispute the permanent relevance of Homer’s Iliad and Odys...
It’s a simple question, and should be easy to answer: “What books get to count as great books?” And yet, as with most definitional questions in art, it is hard to give a good answer. I think part o...
There are three standards that have proven practical, which I discovered while observing wise people with limited access to the credentialing part of education.
Papaw was a graduate of “Goose Creek...
The Christian Classical Education renewal has its shared lingo, but the communal language we use is not trivial jargon—by it we mean something specific and intentional. Indeed, the fact that langua...
The dispute about why great books are great cannot be settled unless we have a way to decide which books are great. But we will not have a way to decide which specific books are great until we are ...
I believe that some books are better than others and that some are truly great and worth reading in every generation. I have also written a longer article on how development of the canon of great b...
