Chronicles Magazine Literature

The Abolition of Learning

Michael McMahon - FEBRUARY 01, 2005

In 1997, the headmaster of the English secondary school in which I was teaching ordered a bibliocaust. The inspectors were coming, and he wanted our library to look up-to-date.

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Music, Technology, and Psychological Warfare
E. Michael Jones - FEBRUARY 01, 2005
The late Sam Shapiro used to tell a story about two Englishmen in China who wanted to demonstrate the superiority of their culture to one of the mandarins they had met.
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Man and Everyman
Joseph Pearce - FEBRUARY 01, 2005
The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis’s masterful critique of the relativism that was as rampant in his day as it is in ours, represented the culmination of the author’s quest for the quintessential meaning of man’s being and purpose.
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Beautiful Terror
James O. Tate - FEBRUARY 01, 2005
The face is familiar, but not the gray hair. To some few, it may be so from Our Gang shorts from the late 30’s and early 40’s, known by the moniker of Mickey Gubitosi.
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Playing Poetry With a Net
Mark Royden Winchell - FEBRUARY 01, 2005
In the Introduction to his classic anthology of Fugitive verse, William Pratt writes: “Modern American poetry abounds in individualism, but two groups of poets have affected its course profoundly.”
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Room to Pass
Patrick Walsh - FEBRUARY 01, 2005
Few people read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) much anymore. Lines from his poems were once on the tips of tongues the world over. Students used to memorize “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” and lines from “Evan-geline” and “Hiawatha.”
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Chronicles Magazine Literature

The Abolition of Learning

Music, Technology, and Psychological Warfare

Man and Everyman

Beautiful Terror

Playing Poetry With a Net

Room to Pass

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