John Senior

The Obvious Secret of Education

There is a secret to the art of education, but it is an obvious secret. Despite the whirlings of the world, education is straightforward: It engages the good, the true, and the beautiful in the context of basic...

James Joyce, John Senior, & the Illumination of the Modern World

Reading James Joyce and John Senior together will illuminate the modern world and point toward a path of how to thrive within it. Both represent a quest for the real: one through the symbolic mediation of literature and the other through its poetic embodiment in our daily lives... (essay...

Classical Education: Renewing Christian Civilization

The number of those attracted by the renewal of classical education is growing, as parents confronting the spiritual wasteland of contemporary education flock to schools producing faithful, intelligent, joyful students devoted to the true, the good, and the beautiful, and energized to proclaim them to Church and...

John Senior and the Restoration of Realism

John Senior’s great contribution was to forge a middle way between indoctrination and the chaos of complete relativism. Instead of indoctrinating students, the classical knowledge of a Christian culture provided the tools and the framework for true education... John Senior and the...

The Kindle & the Remaking of Civilization

For some years now, there has been a genial quarrel between those who use e-readers like Nook and Kindle and those who prefer real books with actual pages. John Senior, if he were alive today, would undoubtedly denounce...

How to Love Your Ordinary, Daily Work

The ordinary daily life of men in Christian culture, who work not only in the sweat of their brows, but for the love of their families, there is also love of work. When men...

The Worst Thing That Can Happen to a Man

'Do what thou wilt' includes willing to do what thou shouldst not. The Liberal takes a stand in No Man’s Land between 'the law that is in my members' and 'the law that...