writing Archives : Professor Carol

Making the Cut

April 7, 2022 by Professor Carol

I’ve reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face. — Richard Due That’s a pretty good description of editing—at least the kind I like best wherein the author, … Read more

If You Love It, Cut It

January 9, 2020 by Professor Carol

It’s early in the semester, so few students are thinking about their term papers. But for those of us engaged in work where something written always is due (or overdue), there is no vacation from writing. Long have I claimed not particularly to enjoy writing. … 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.”