“Into the Ashes”

By |2024-02-13T20:48:43-06:00February 13th, 2013|Categories: Ash Wednesday, Lent, Peter Blum|

I have a small and secret desire, well-hid. Secret from whom, you ask? Secret from me, I suspect, Or maybe I am a suspect, secretly, Quietly desiring. This is the week to bring a secret forth Not by telling, no "big reveal" But quietly, like the secret itself Into the ashes of Wednesday morning. Ashes [...]

The Nature of Human Happiness

By |2014-12-30T14:33:18-06:00February 13th, 2013|Categories: Books, Bruce Frohnen, Charles Murray, Community, Social Order|

In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government by Charles Murray Throughout his long and highly productive career, Charles Murray has done the seemingly impossible. He has melded his strong libertarianism with respect for, and insights from, the work of Robert Nisbet and Russell Kirk. He has trained as a social scientist, worked for the Peace Corps, [...]

Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Gerhart Niemeyer

By |2019-02-19T16:19:51-06:00February 13th, 2013|Categories: Christianity, Education, Eric Voegelin, Gerhart Niemeyer, Liberal Learning|Tags: |

Gerhart Niemeyer In my previous essays about teaching in an age of ideology, I had looked at two teachers–Eric Voegelin and Ellis Sandoz–who sought to clear the ideological rubble in the modern academia so students could study the true, the beautiful, and the good. In his accessible lectures about complicated philosophical topics, Eric [...]

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