The War on Joy: Acedia in 20th Century Literature
It takes something drastic to affect a radical re-prioritization of the good of matrimonial and domestic love over those of power and convenience
Tag: liberal arts
Poems One Should Contemplate before Venturing Forth from College
The following five poems (offered in no particular order), I suggest, every bachelor of arts—indeed, every liberal artist—should carry in memory.
What Do You Know?: Thinking about Thinking
“The mind can know nothing except what it can express in the form of an answer to a question put by the mind to itself.”
— Charlotte Mason
Brontë’s Vision of Romantic Love
In a strict, Calvinist boarding school in the cold and wet environs of Northwestern England, amid “clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating,” C…
Interviewing Dr. Shannon Valenzuela
Larissa Bianco interviews Dr. Valenzuela who will be leading an AMI webinar on Chaucer's beloved tale: The Nun's Priest's Tale of Chanticleer and the …
What Does it Matter if Nature Acts for an End?
If it is true that nature indeed acts for an end, then man by nature must have a purpose.
All the World’s a Stage: Cynicism and Joy in As You Like It
What lies at the heart of this mirthful comedy: the possibility of joy in a world where people are open to the goodness in each other, despite whateve…
How Wonder will Set You Free
The liberal arts, traditionally grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and music, are the intellectual skills that allow one to ca…
