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November 2015

November 24, 2015

Transcendence

I place before you two quotes: one from a Columbia scholar who has studied American...

November 12, 2015

Pluralism or catholicity?

Nicholas Kristof reflects intelligently on the problems faced by campuses like the University of Missouri and...

October 2015

October 16, 2015

The long view

I am reading a fine collection of essays entitled Christianity and the Disciplines, which invites...

July 2015

July 08, 2015

Pope Francis address at Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador

Yesterday Pope Francis gave an address to representatives of schools and universities at the...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Guest post: two concepts of rationality, Francis M. McLaughlin

In the 1970s, while browsing in a Harvard Square bookstore, I found a thin volume...

June 10, 2015

Review Essay: Paul Shrimpton, The Making of Men

In 1848 an Oxford don named Charles Daman, a close friend of John Henry Newman...

May 2015

May 19, 2015

Knowing takes work

From John Henry Newman: The mind ranges to and fro, and spreads out and advances...

May 07, 2015

Can Catholic universities end poverty?

Sister Amata Miller, I.H.M. is a professor of economics, director of the Myser Initiative...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Catholic universities and nonviolence

In light of the situation that has unfolded in Baltimore in recent days, we who...

April 24, 2015

Resisting the corporate imperative

Over at Commonweal, Jackson Lears, the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University, has...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

The meaning of meaning

At the heart of any intellectual exercise is meaning-making. Whether I am using a microscope...

March 26, 2015

Catholic universities and ecology

Catholic universities are in a position to impact one of the areas of great need...

March 20, 2015

What’s the point of a Christian education?

Christiaan W. J. M. Alting von Geusau, president and rector of the International Theological Institute, a...

March 17, 2015

Benedict and Francis: two models for the modern Catholic university

The challenge to Catholic higher education today is different from those of a generation or...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

New Catholic university in Kurdistan

From Zenit: a new Catholic university will open in the city of Erbil, northern Kurdistan....

February 14, 2015

I believe in order to understand

On this Valentine's Day, I offer a short post that simply suggests what I see...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Cyberknowledge vs. the slow work of learning

Education is slow work. It resists quick conclusions, bumper stickers, facile politicization, sound bytes-- in...

January 21, 2015

Cosmopolitanism and Catholicism

Universities are complex places that influence young minds. Sometimes that influence is scattershot: a little...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

Alice McDermott is astonished by love

Acclaimed novelist Alice McDermott, author of such novels as Someone (2013), After This (2006)...