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The Keen Delight by Harold Weatherby and other musings on Aesthetics

This school year I have been slowly making my way through Etienne Gilson’s book The Arts of the Beautiful.  I have been doing this with some other colleagues of mine at Glendale Prep.  We’ve been getting together and discussing the book as part of a “Philosophy of Beauty” reading group.  It was one of my “intellectual projects” […]

Art and Narrative

Dear Friends, Please take a moment to CLICK HERE to read Dr. James M. Wilson’s article in First Principles, which he states “Address[es] the pressing need for conservatives to make their case in terms of narrative — which is the mother of all the arts” (https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/08/art-and-beauty-against-the-politicized-aesthetic/) The title of the article is “The Treasonous Clerk: […]

Mark Van Doren Remembered

An article remembering the giant Mark Van Doren, Dr. John Senior’s mentor and long-time friend.  Thank you to Kirk Kramer for e-mailing this to me, it was a delightful read and lifted my spirits amidst grading student papers.   New Criterion, June 2000 Mark Van Doren remembered by Jeffrey Hart Above the columns of Butler […]

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