January 14, 2008

by Joseph Tussman
 
Originally published in Liberal Educator (Winter 1984) and reprinted in The Burden of Office, Talonbooks (1989)

January 10, 2008

Harvard's Postmodern Curriculum
By R.R. Reno (First Things)
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
 
...a brief critique of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Report of the Task Force on General Education .

January 04, 2008

"What is 'How we work'?
 
"We're interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done. And in the specific anecdotes and the way people describe their own relationship to their own work. Here's a list of some stories and habits."
 
I love the ones regarding authors.

January 02, 2008

David Frum's Diary (a National Review blog) has a year-end post on the Great Books, responding to the question "Do you have a few books any breathing person needs to read?"