A Misremembered Past (10.1007/s12129-015-9524-x)
Matthew J. Franck, Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, Witherspoon Institute
In the first entry of “Disputing Deneen,” our special section of responses to “After the Interregnum” (Winter 2014), Patrick J. Deneen’s argument that the current culture wars betray higher education’s true mission and reflect a century-long disaffiliation of America’s colleges and universities from their “religious foundations, identities, and commitments,” Matthew J. Franck cautions that our models for learning “lie more in the future we will fashion than in a past we misremember.”
Civilizing Places (10.1007/s12129-015-9525-9)
Timothy Fuller, Colorado College
Timothy Fuller addresses Deneen on the decline of liberal learning from the vantage point of having taught at a liberal arts college for fifty years, maintaining throughout his commitment to emphasizing the great works of the Western tradition. He encapsulates Deneen’s
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