Budapest Archives : Professor Carol

The Scruton Cafe in Budapest

April 28, 2022April 28, 2022 by Professor Carol

Looking across the Danube through sheets of rain at the creamy façade and dark dome of Budapest’s Parliament, I shake my head in amazement. I did not expect to be in Budapest this week, sitting before my room’s picture window in the Castle Hilton, a … Read more

Playing the Tour Leader

June 6, 2017May 28, 2014 by Reynolds

This is my third tour in the past year as Study Leader on an intense, rewarding Smithsonian Journey called “Old World Europe.” Out my window shimmers the fairy-tale façade of the Hungarian Parliament, casting its reflection upon the dark waters of the Danube. The Margarite … Read more

And Then There's This . . .

Vince Bielski, When Classical Learning Meets Public Education the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic. “Classical education, whose name gained traction in the 1980s to evoke the movement’s focus on liberal arts and the Western canon, is struggling to overcome local political opposition.”

Peter Wood, After College: The Coming Cultural Collapse of Higher Education. “Students graduate with a veneer of knowledge rather than a core. An increasingly obsolescent institution has wedded itself to an increasingly noisome cultural stance.”

Anthony Esolen, Heap Songs Upon Their Heads. “We are the most beauty-starved people, I am persuaded, who have ever trod the earth.”

Gregory Wolfe, The Wound of Beauty. “The time has come to bring beauty back, to give it the glass slipper and invite it to the prom.”