[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

[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

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, founder of the International Poetry Forum

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

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

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 is mathematics a liberal art? How can being good at math translate into virtue?

An interview with Francis Su

How successful are the liberal arts in teaching students how to be happy?

An interview with Tal Ben-Shahar

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

The Hedgehog Review interviews Ryan McDermott

Can't poetry just be beautiful and sufficient in itself, a refuge?

Anthony Shoplik interviews Philip Metres

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]

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

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

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

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.