Book Review: Rod Dreher’s How Dante Can Save Your Life
Sometimes a book falls into your hands at exactly the right moment
Sometimes a book falls into your hands at exactly the right moment
A look at a new book of essays from one of America’s pre-eminent writers
“Some parents and educators have the misconception that classical education is only for ‘smart kids.’” These are the opening words from Cheryl Swope’s recently published book Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child, in which she tells the story of classically teaching her daughter, Michelle who was diagnosed with both autism and schizophrenia, among …
Stratford Caldecott’s 160-page new book Beauty in the Word has proven difficult for me to finish, and I mean that as a sincere compliment. Serving as a sequel to his 2009 work Beauty for Truth’s Sake, in which Caldecott offered a study of the mathematical arts of the Quadrivium and called for an education that …