The Odyssey of Roosevelt Montás by M. D. Aeschliman

 The Odyssey of Roosevelt Montás by M. D. Aeschliman

Thus Montás’s case against ferocious Nietzschean irrationalism, its offspring in “postmodernism,” and their numerous, haughty, tenured contemporary successors puts him in good company and shows that he has understood the real grounds of our culture wars and their stakes, from elementary-school curricula and pedagogy to college curricula and the world of academic writing and publishing in the humanities and social sciences. He even has the temerity to defend the Victorian sage who shaped Anglo-American educational attitudes and practices for more than a century: “Matthew Arnold’s famous adage that liberal learning should consist in ‘getting to know the best which has been thought and said in the world’” has become “an object of derision among academic humanists. But Arnold was right about this, and every course offered by any professor represents some instantiation of his dictum, even if the object of the course is to refute the dictum. If we deny the capacity to make generalizable value judgments — albeit contestable and revisable ones — about what things from the past are most worth passing on to young people as they pursue ‘higher education,’ we lose the capacity to organize a liberal education curriculum. As indeed most institutions have.”

This man deserves some serious consideration!