Higher Education

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

Article

The Gadfly

In his work, the late historian John Lukacs embodied a Christian humanism, one that ideologues on both the left and right did their best to bury. He will be missed.

By John Rodden

May 18, 2019

Foreign Affairs

Higher Education

Article

A Textbook Case

A lot of people fancy themselves history buffs, obsessing over names, dates, and numbers. But facts aren’t narratives. And history can’t be learned from a phone.

May 16, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

Global Protests & Income Inequality

This year seems unusual, both for the number and scale of protests across the world. What links them is the growing demand for greater income equality.

By The Editors

November 21, 2019

Religion

Preeminent?

The bishops’ insistence on abortion as the preeminent political issue reveals their resistance to Pope Francis’s call to serve the common good in all its complexity.

By Matthew Sitman

November 21, 2019

Culture

St. Ephrem’s Lament

The territory along the Syrian-Turkish border is the ancestral homeland of an ancient tradition of Aramaic-speaking Christianity. They’ve been betrayed before.

By Joseph Amar

November 19, 2019

Books

Ask the Dust

Masada is not just a significant site for the history of Second Temple Judaism. Its story also exerts a powerful hold on the modern state of Israel.

By Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

November 11, 2019

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