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'Five years after the pandemic’s onset, there has been a substantial shift away from public schools and toward non-public options.' And this in Massa chusetts, where one wd expect greater loyalty to public schools. educationnext.org/school-enrollm…

Few people seem to recognize that UF in the last decade has joined the top tier of public Ivies, right up there with U Michigan, UNC-Chapel HIll, UVa etc. There are rarely changes in the status hierarchy of top universities but UF is one of the few exceptions. It's also the best…

The University of Florida is the new leader in the study of Western and American civilization. So-called elite universities have abandoned the study of Western culture and politics over the last 25 years, and that betrayal has given other institutions the opportunity to create…

I think I should have printed on the promotional bumf for my new book, The Golden Thread, 'No committees, focus groups, or market research studies were involved in the writing of this book.'

Hongjialou Cathedral in Jinan City. About 150 Chinese at mass this evening in 95 degree heat. The church was build 120 years ago by funds returned by the US govt to China from the Boxer Indemnity. I don't think the US would be in the business of building Catholic churches today,

When I first tried to familiarize myself with Catholic social teaching, which was far too late in my career as an intellectual historian, the first thing that struck me was that the popes from Leo XIII to JP II were neither socialists nor free market liberals but were seeking the…

When people talk about how the use of AI is going to destroy the human mind, I can't help remembering Plato's view that literacy was destroying human memory.

My response to the Manhattan Statement on Higher Education

I think Encounter Books is expecting individual purchases to be made from Amazon or other online booksellers. There will be discount deals from the publisher for course adoptions if I am not mistaken @EncounterBooks

There is an excellent encyclopaedia, The Classical Tradition, ed. Grafton, Most, and Settis, published by Harvard University Press. Recommended. This book however is a narrative history of a 2500-year old tradition.

Official pub date is August 26 but I believe it can be ordered now.

My magnum opus has arrived. Magnum as in 1249 pages, 800 illustrations, most in color, 75 maps, well over a hundred extracts from primary sources, chronologies and lists of key terms. I wrote Volume 1, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance, and my oldest friend in academe,…

lawliberty.org/reform-higher-… @Harvard @cafharvard

And why not? Clovis I of Francia was the first of the barbarian nations to convert from Arianism to Nicene Christianity thanks to his determined wife, St Clotilde.

Ancient wisdom rediscovered by Gen Z babylonbee.com/news/8-ingenio…

Happy feast of St. Bonaventure, the great Franciscan philosopher. For his feast, the Church bids us read Wisdom 8:2-7, 16-18, a beautiful meditation on the love of Wisdom and its benefits. It was written probably in Alexandria 50 years before the birth of Christ.

Incredible. Throughout history, civilization has been built on a willingness to forcefully suppress the violence of barbarians, without worrying about “deeper causes.”