Some truths seem self-evident once somebody has spoken them, but someone needs to make that move. So here goes: whenever any of us teaches, that teacher teaches something. Teaching a mechanic how to maintain an automobile’s engine involves things that teaching differential calculus doesn’t, and neither of those is quite the same as teaching Shotokan karate. Michael Burger’s new book Reading History from University of Toronto Press sets out to explore what it might look like to teach history, and Christian Humanist Profiles is happy to welcome him to the show to talk about that book and that enterprise.
Nathan Gilmour interviews Roger Scruton about his recent book "How to Be a Conservative."
I’ve had a working hypothesis for quite a while now that stories about the devil tell us about as much about an author’s priorities...
Michial Farmer interviews David Crowe about his book "Cosmic Defiance: Updike’s Kierkegaard and the Maples Stories."