The Great Books Bracket: Final Matchup
And then there were two . . .
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Great Books Bracket Final Four
And then there were four . . .
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2014 Great Books Bracket – Elite 8
And then there were eight . . .
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Great Books Bracket Sweet 16
After the drama of round 1, round 2 featured 16 blowouts
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Great Books Bracket Round 2
After a first round full of mind-blowing upsets it’s time for a loaded second round
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The 2014 Great Books Bracket
So now that the NCAA College Basketball Tournament is over and you are thoroughly annoyed that you didn’t win Warren Buffett’s billion dolllar challenge, it’s time to vote on a real bracket: The CiRCE Institute’s 2014 Great Books Bracket. We’ve painstakingly chosen sixty-four of the Great Books, seeded 1-16 into four brackets of sixteen books
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“BARN BURNING” AND FAULKNER’S UNIQUELY ANACHRONISTIC AESTHETIC
“Barn Burning” is one of William Faulkner’s most widely read short stories, second perhaps only to “A Rose for Emily”. But where “Emily” is Faulkner’s most digestible story, “Barn Burning” is the ideal introduction to Faulkner’s unique and sometimes difficult literary aesthetic. I’ve long claimed that very few people actually love William Faulkner, unlike, say,
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12 Books on Classical Education to Read This Year
We’re a few weeks into the new year and if you’re anything like me you’re probably already overwhelmed with your resolutions. You might be asking yourself things like, “why did I think I could/would do that?” Or maybe, “That’s cute that I wrote that down”. Or even, “I should really add some more books to
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Quotables: On the Incarnation
While church father Athanasius of Alexandria is probably best known for his “contra mundum” stance against Arianism, for his defense of the doctrine of the Trinity (“whole and undefiled”), and for the “Athanasian Creed” (which he didn’t actually write), he was also an eloquent writer of great clarity and precision. CS Lewis called him a
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On Guns, and Breakfast, and Getting Shot
I woke to the smell of bacon and coffee, familiar and pleasant and full of the promise of a new adventure. Rolling out of my sheet, I tossed my legs to the floor and dragged my boots towards me with my right foot. I slipped into the jeans draped over the foot of the bed
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Words of Wisdom: Laura Berquist on Classical Education Done Well
In this edition of our Words of Wisdom feature we talk with Laura Berquist, author, teacher, and CiRCE conference regular. Mrs. Berquist is a home schooling mother of six and is founder and director of Mother of Divine Grace School, an accredited distance learning school serving more than 4000 students and providing ongoing training to
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Weekly Web Roundup: 10/18
For the weekend crowd, this is a sampling of what we’ve been reading this week. Robert Long writes about the incomparable Marilyn Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, for the American Conservative: “Though Robinson has written that she is “extremely reluctant” to talk about her faith, “chiefly because my belief does not readily reduce
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