Clay Greene

Sep 11, 2024 | educationnext.org | Clay Greene

Educators are conscious of the value of exposing students to great works of poetry, but the teaching of poetry often lacks a key ingredient: orality. The standard teaching in high school and university classes presents a poem as an abstract object on a page, encouraging students to see poems as riddles to be solved. But history shows that poems are best understood and taught as oral performances, using all the techniques of interpretation and communication of a great actor.

Apr 21, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Clay Greene

Eric Adler is Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Maryland. His fascinating mind ranges ancient history and modern classicism, and he shares some of that wisdom with me as we discuss what humanists can learn from previous "crises of the humanities."

Apr 1, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Clay Greene |Frederick M. Hess |Michael Q. McShane |Jack Andrews

The Department of Education’s 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, warned of the “rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people,” adding that “if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.” If you ask the average American conservative today, he will opine that an unfriendly domestic power has imposed, not a mediocre, but an actively...

Jan 14, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Clay Greene

Alex Priou is a philosopher and the co-host of the New Thinkery Podcast. Together we discuss the complicated legacy of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche--what he appreciated in the ancients, what he critiqued, and what is his enduring contribution to Western Civilization.

Jan 7, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Clay Greene

Benjamin Storey, senior fellow in Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, helps me understand the existential and moral questions that accompany classical education. We discuss Montaigne, Plato, Aristotle, and the problems that face modern students.