We meet people like John Erskine, the grandfather of the Great Books movement and a “gentleman of the old school,” as Beam describes him. Erskine believed a great book was one that “has meaning, and ...

Americans discard “perfectly good stuff,” which is how Roosevelt Montas came, in high school, to rescue Socrates from a “garbage pile.” The Harvard Classics series, two volumes of which Montas scored ...

The planning of new degree programs at colleges and universities is a deliberate process. Among other things, it involves months of: Discussions among the administration and the faculty. Attention to ...

Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás will share his life journey to highlight the continued relevance of the “Great Books” by writers such as Plato, Augustine, Freud and Gandhi and a ...