Encouraging Patriotism Through Stories

The Great Hearts Institute is very proud to be the steward of What So Proudly We Hail, an anthology of songs, stories, and poems celebrating the American experience. With the... Read more

Thoughts from a Symposium Rookie
Thoughts from a Symposium Rookie

Nick Hutchison was a valued contributor to the National Symposium for Classical Education this past year, and we are very pleased to announce that he will be returning again in... Read more

For Once, Then, Something
For Once, Then, Something

Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs Always wrong to the light, so never seeing Deeper down in the well than where the water Gives me back in a... Read more

Teaching Poetry in Season
Teaching Poetry in Season

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... Read more

Rightful Ownership of the Arts
Rightful Ownership of the Arts

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... Read more

Art and Judgement
Art and Judgement

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... Read more

Issue 13: The Director’s Take
Issue 13: The Director’s Take

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... Read more

Remembering Amy Kass
Remembering Amy Kass

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... Read more

Fall Remembrances
Fall Remembrances

More than 80 years ago, W.H. Auden set verse to his grief over one of the darkest days in modern Western history: “September 1, 1939,” the day Germany invaded Poland.... Read more

The Road Not Taken in American Education
The Road Not Taken in American Education

I was heartened to read Jenna and Ben Storey’s recent piece in the New York Times (reprinted at AEI’s site), which distinguishes two incommensurable roads for higher education: college as a... Read more

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