Was Irving Babbitt an Educational Counterrevolutionist?
Christian theology, Western civilization, and, above all else, mental discipline—Babbitt’s case for the humanities relied on none of these foundations.
The Variety of Historical Minds
Decades past the peak of New Humanism’s renown, this fine volume ably demonstrates that the movement still has much of crucial value to teach us.
The Neoliberal University and the Neoliberal Curriculum
Numerous jeremiads today about American higher education demonstrate a disinclination to examine their subject in a broad historical perspective. Thus many such works seldom cast their purview earlier than the academic culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, and see these decades as the years that inaugurated the push to treat higher education as a business.
A Common Sense Approach to Literary Criticism
Seaton differs from other traditionalistic culture warriors in proposing a novel intellectual framework for this state of affairs.