The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
Two New Studies of Owen Barfield
Mateusz Stróżyński on Owen Barfield, whose philosophy and poetry are “indispensable… for those who want to go beyond the present spiritual and cultural crisis.”
Sacrificing Our Youth
Despite the arrogance of modern thinkers and the mountains of data tech companies collect about us, they still fail to know us deeply.
Charles R. Martelle offer a principal’s view on a modern crisis of attention
“My Fingers are like Cauliflowers:” the Material Productions of the Hogarth Press
On Virginia Woolf’s thirty-third birthday, she and Leonard Woolf made three significant decisions over tea: they would purchase a house in Richmond, acquire a bulldog named John, and buy a printing press.
Reanna Brooks on The Hogarth Press
Stained Glass: The Aims of Education at the University of Chicago
[T]rue liberal education aims at a holistic understanding of truth, a universal knowledge in which, as Saint John Henry Newman puts it, all branches of learning connect.
Kate Whitaker on her liberal arts education
“But all the fun’s in how you say a thing”: Robert Frost’s Risky Readings
[Frost’s] theories of “sentence sounds” and “sound-posture” insisted that tone and spoken vocal inflection–how words sound when we say them–should be the material of poetry, a poetic paradigm which was perfectly suited to performance.
Isabelle Stuart on the history of modern poetry recordings
Reading Voices: What Can We Learn from Modernist Poetry Recordings?
There have been drastic changes in how poetry sounds to readers over the last hundred and fifty years, troubling the illusion that reading silently can offer us access to the poem as it sounded to the writer.
Isabelle Stuart on the history of modern poetry recordings
An Interview with Samuel Hazo
An interview with Samuel Hazo, founder of the International Poetry Forum
Who Needs a Horse That Flies? Pt. III
The absence of poetry from our daily discourse and our public life leaves a total vacuum because there is no substitute for it.
Samuel Hazo on the relevance of poetry for modern life
Who Needs a Horse That Flies? Pt. II
It is in the world of the incarnate word that we find our true selves, and it is the imagination that takes us there.
Samuel Hazo on the relevance of poetry for modern life
Who Needs a Horse That Flies? Pt. I
Most of what we do or make, for good or ill, originates in the imagination.
Samuel Hazo on the relevance of poetry for modern life
How Beautiful Are Numbers?
How is mathematics a liberal art? How can being good at math translate into virtue?
An interview with Francis Su
Teaching Happiness
How successful are the liberal arts in teaching students how to be happy?
An interview with Tal Ben-Shahar
Can AI Reignite Our Faith?
AI gives us information. It furnishes facts. It prompts us with news headlines. But could AI also answer our religious questions?
An interview with Shanen Boettcher
Hedgehog Noontime Discussion with Ryan McDermott
The Hedgehog Review interviews Ryan McDermott
An Interview with Philip Metres: Part I
Can't poetry just be beautiful and sufficient in itself, a refuge?
Anthony Shoplik interviews Philip Metres
An Update on the Australian Catholic University
It is a chief responsibility of the humanities to remember and interpret the past so that we can understand the present.
Ryan McDermott on proposed faculty cuts at ACU [update]
Deliberate Forgetting at Australian Catholic University
It is a chief responsibility of the humanities to remember and interpret the past so that we can understand the present.
Ryan McDermott on proposed faculty cuts at ACU
A Genealogy of Death
The happy skeletons smile, as if to say, “I am alive, I am well, and death is not the end.” For Jorge Portilla, like Socrates before him, a good and meaningful life requires the endorsement of life after death.
Brian Harding on philosophies of death from Greece to Mexico
Humanities beyond the Crisis
This sense of repetition—of just how persistent the titular state of “crisis” in the humanities has been—gives one pause. It is in the space of this pause that their criticisms may land with force.
Jonathan Heaps reviews Permanent Crisis
Ten Thousand Angels and Comic-Book Theodicy
The paradox of theodicy is that the truly memorable parts are not the resolutions but the unresolved tensions that no literary narrative or philosophical formulation can fully address.
Chris Fite on the theodicy of comic-book universes.