Higher Education

Article

American Universities Abroad

The global university may model a path toward reason in the age of Twitter. But dogmatism still has its champions, here and abroad.

By George Dennis O'Brien

January 13, 2020

Article

Dangerous Disconnects?

Priestly formation and academic theology are increasingly cut off from the real lives of Catholics. That poses a real problem, one that theologians must address.

December 23, 2019

Article

Adventures in Learning

Fr. Luigi Giussani’s experience as a student and teacher made him especially attuned to the rhetorical challenge of helping young people mature in faith and reason.

By Joshua P. Hochschild

November 5, 2019

Education

Philosophy

Higher Education

A Call to Public Life

Massimo Faggioli comments on the legacy of Don Lugi Sturzo, the Italian priest who resisted fascism and insisted on the right of lay Catholics to engage actively in politics.

Secularism and Modernity

Social Justice

Higher Education

Article

The Little Ivies’ Aggiornamenti

Francis Oakley’s memoir about higher education emphasizes “the lifelong pursuit of liberal learning”—education through engagement with those who disagree with you.

By Nicholas Clifford

June 6, 2019

Higher Education

Academic Freedom

Article

The Legacy of Fr. Ted Hesburgh

The late Fr. Ted Hesburgh transformed the University of Notre Dame into a leading institution. A new book tendentiously ignores key aspects of his life and work.

By Kenneth L. Woodward

May 21, 2019

U.S. Catholicism

Vatican II

Higher Education

Must Reads

Politics

Misenchantment

Mammon has seduced us. The only true path of resistance to capitalism’s destructive energies is one that leads away from the logic of markets.

By David Bentley Hart

January 6, 2020

Religion

A Cathedral Not Made by Hands

In an old-growth forest, everything is connected. No individual plant or animal, and indeed no species, is an island. As Pope Francis warns, we should pay attention.

By Vincent Miller

December 30, 2019

Culture

Pilgrims

Had I known before that the greatest gift of the road was the love of another human being? Of course I had. But I had not fully understood.

By Kathleen Hill

January 10, 2020

Books

Philosopher in the Ring

What can boxing teach us about the good life? Gordon Marino riffs on Sartre, Kierkegaard, and Camus, finding that in order to save our lives, we must risk loving.

By Steven Knepper

January 8, 2020

Collections

Injustice at the Border

The suffering of migrants and refugees on the border cannot be forgotten. Nor can the Trump administration’s deliberate cruelty toward them.

By The Editors

October 28, 2019