The advancements of modern science are generally a compilation of empirical quantities and an understanding of material composition. While there are incredible scientific leaps in these two respects, it is also in a sense, incomplete. The progressive gain is matched by a progressive loss in the focus of what objectively and naturally makes living beings what...
Note: Today's guest contributor is Andrew J. Zwerneman, the president and co-founder of Cana Academy and the author of the forthcoming book, History: Forgotten and Remembered, to be released in September, 2020. As a society we are increasingly divided—from each other and from our past. However, because a classical, liberal education is deeply historical, it is well...
Today’s post is from our long-time collaborator, Dr. Matthew Post of the University of Dallas, who offers us some thoughts on Brian Greene and his distinctions between facts and values. In a recent TIME article, Brian Greene, director of Columbia’s center for theoretical physics, asserts that there is no moral order, no purpose to the universe, and...
As a society we are increasingly divided—from each other and from our past. However, because a classical, liberal education is deeply historical, it is well suited to help bridge that widening gulf and to be a source of cultural renewal. It accomplishes this through the formal study of history and by developing a historical habit...
The advancements of modern science are generally a compilation of empirical quantities and an understanding of material composition. While there are incredible scientific leaps in these two respects, it is also in a sense, incomplete. The progressive gain is matched by a progressive loss in the focus of what objectively and naturally makes living beings what...