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Language Improves Your Experience of the World
Image by yukiehamada via Pixabay. Last week I had a discussion with a young woman, a master’s student, who was TAing an undergraduate French class. She found that her students were struggling, and that...
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The Value of a “Liberally” Catholic Education
Image by Picography via Pixabay. Last week, I wrote a relatively critical article about my soon-to-be alma mater, the College of the Holy Cross. While my relationship with my school is troubled, I do...
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Leisure, the Basis of Summer Break
Image by Unsplash via Pixabay. Classes have ended, or soon will, with final papers and exams to follow them into the hazy fog of memory. The term is over, and summer is (almost) here. For some of you,...
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Is Western Civilization Destroying Other Cultures?
Image by Unsplash via Pixabay. “Intercultural Competence.” That is the name of the class my university required me to take in order to graduate. In this class I learned that other cultures are much...
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Office Hours: What Six Students Asked an ISI Professor
Image by Marcus Spiske via Pixabay. Wilfred M. McClay is a distinguished ISI professor and serves as a faculty adviser for OU’s ISI Society. Here he answers questions by six students on a range of...
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Listening to the Professor Isn’t Everything
Image by Kherrmann via Pixabay. Thanks to our universities, authentic discussion and disagreement have become boring, even impossible. Why? Because our universities have backed up particular belief...
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What the German Education System Can Teach American School Reform
Given the rising costs, concomitant increases in student debt, and seemingly ever-waxing administrative bloat, debate about how best to reform America’s educational system has become an integral part...
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Head Sponsor: “We Are Encouraging First-Years Not to Talk to Each Other”
A new school year is upon us, and that means a whole new crop of freshmen, freshwomyn, and everything in between. With that come the typical introductory conversations: What’s your name, Where are you...
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The Secret to Masterful Writing
The following lesson is excerpted from Gregory Roper’s excellent handbook, The Writer’s Workshop, 2007. Indulge me for a moment by using your historical imagination. You live in Florence in the...
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The Solution to Closed Minds on Campus: Return to Personal Liberty
Image by Manos Simonides via Flickr. The following is excerpted from Dr. Lawler’s essay, “The Universal Truth about Particular Persons in America,” originally published in the Winter 2015 issue of...
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