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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.
With the obvious exception of Plato’s Phaedrus, really old books don’t spend much time on technology. Perhaps the tools didn’t change fast enough. Perhaps...
Most of the world happens when I’m not in the room. That’s been a guiding principle for me as I’ve read and heard about...
Nathan Gilmour interviews Charles Hackney about his 2010 book "Martial Virtues: Lessons in Wisdom, Courage, and Compassion from the World's Greatest Warriors."
