By Frederick Turner, Ph.D. | December 6, 2022 Of all the fine arts, poetry is the most difficult to teach. The popular conception of poetry itself, shaped as it was by the modernist rebellion against form, convention, and tradition, deserves much of the blame. Argument and narrative were cast out in favor of the striking... Read More »

By Carol Reynolds, Ph.D. | November 29, 2022 A lively discussion about the rightful ownership of art recently took place in a course I am teaching. We were considering masterworks of ancient sculpture that have been purchased and transported to unrelated locations: the Pergamon Altar of the 2nd century BC, brought in the 19th century... Read More »

By Andrew J. Zwerneman | November 29, 2022 A culture consists of all those activities and artifacts which are organized by the “common pursuit of true judgment” as T.S. Eliot once put it. And true judgment involves the search for meaning through the reflective encounter with things made, composed, and written. Knowing what to do... Read More »

By Robert L. Jackson, Ph.D. | November 28, 2022 Earlier this spring, the Great Hearts Institute played host to a bevy of scholars, artists, teachers, and school leaders. All were gathered in Phoenix for the 4th Annual National Symposium for Classical Education. In the ballroom, meeting rooms, and hallways of the Phoenix Convention Center, we... Read More »

By Cheryl Miller | September 16, 2022 Amy A. Kass (1940–2015) was born on Constitution Day, a fitting coincidence given the life she would lead. At the University of Chicago, where she taught for 34 years, she co-founded a yearlong common core seminar devoted to human and civic excellence with her husband and colleague, Leon... Read More »