Leo Strauss and the Closed Society by Matthew Rose

Leo Strauss and the Closed Society by Matthew Rose

“He argued that good teachers should not seek to dispel the allure of the closed society; instead, they should carefully draw students directly inside of it. This pedagogy would enable students to experience the power of the closed society’s moral demands, to sense the appeal of its political life, and to feel challenged by its vision of human excellence.”

Very interesting analysis of a speech given by Leo Strauss encouraging the values of a "closed society" while living in an open one.

Humanism is a heresy by Tom Holland

Humanism is a Heresy by Tom Holland

God was dead — but in the great cave that once had been Christendom his shadow still fell. The myths of Christianity would long endure. And yet they were no less myths, for all that, because they now wore the show of the secular. “Such phantoms as the dignity of man, the dignity of labour”: these were Christian through and through.

Very interesting thesis on the secularization of culture.

Educating the Founder by Lee Trepanier

Educating the Founder by Lee Trepanier

The Framers’ education was grounded in a deeper and broader tradition that stretches back to the Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews. They believed that practical political solutions could be found in the literature, history, and philosophy of the ancients, the common law of the English, and Christianity theology.

Obviously I love this.