Roosevelt Montas

Aug 17, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Michael Lucchese |Christopher J. Scalia |Roosevelt Montas |Cole Murphy

Jane Austen is England’s brightest literary jewel. The slightly upper-crust characters in her novels spend most of their time in the most English of pursuits: drinking tea, visiting country houses, and gossiping about their neighbors.

Nov 11, 2023 | thedispatch.com | Roosevelt Montas

In May 1940—30 years before his conversation with National Review founder William F. Buckley—the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges published Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,the closest thing to a perfect narrative I have ever read. The story is a brain-melting account of the disintegration of ordinary reality after contact with a fictional world called Tlön.

Aug 29, 2023 | oll.libertyfund.org | Anika T. Prather |Aeon Skoble |Roosevelt Montas

Areopagitica (1644) (Jebb ed.) John Milton (author) This is Milton’s famous defense of freedom of speech and the press, in an edition based upon Sir Richard Jebb’s lectures at Cambridge in 1872, with extensive notes and commentaries. Mlton’s work was a protest against Parliament’s… The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Part 1 (The Oxford Shakespeare) William Shakespeare (author) The 1916 Oxford University Press edition of all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems.

Aug 4, 2023 | plough.com | Roosevelt Montas

Why would anyone study the liberal arts? It’s no secret that the liberal arts have fallen out of favor and are struggling to prove their relevance. The cost of college pushes students to majors and degrees with more obvious career outcomes. A new cohort of educators isn’t taking this lying down. They realize they need to reimagine and rearticulate what a liberal arts education is for, and what it might look like in today’s world.

Mar 15, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Annie Abrams |Roosevelt Montas

In recent months, those of us who care about the humanist tradition in education have watched with dismay as right-wing politicians clear space for what they dubiously call “traditional education,” often linking their efforts to the cause of liberal education and the teaching of the Western canon. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has placed his “anti-woke” education agenda at the center of his emerging national profile, is a case in point.