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“john agresto”

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  • The Death of Learning

    How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It

    by John Agresto ...
    The liberal arts are dying. They are dying because most Americans don’t see the point of them. Americans don’t understand why anyone would study literature or history or the classics—or, more contemporarily, feminist criticism, whiteness studies, or the literature of postcolonial states—when they can get an engineering or business degree.Even more concerning is when they read how “Western ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Civic Education and the Future of American Citizenship

    by John Agresto, Peter A. Benoliel, Jeff Bergner, Bruce Cole, E. D. Hirsch, Andrea Radasanu, Lisa Spiller, Jonathan Yonan, Dana Gioia, Mark Bauerlein, Wilfred M. McClay ...
    The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education aimed to cultivate enlightened, informed, and vigilant citizens who could perpetuate and improve the nation. Unfortunately, America’s contemporary youth seem to lack adequate opportunities, if not also the ability or will, to critically examine the foundations of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education

    by Daniel E. Cullen, John Agresto, James W. Ceaser, Donald Downs, Jakub Grygiel, Stephen H. Wirls, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr., Robert P. George, Yuval Levin, Wilfred M. McClay0 ...
    The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources. In this sense, liberal education is negative, questioning any and all constraints on the activity ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy

    by John Agresto ...
    In The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy John Agresto traces the development of American judicial power, paying close attention to what he views as the very real threat of judicial supremacy. Agresto examines the role of the judiciary in a democratic society and discusses the proper place of congressional power in constitutional issues. Agresto argues that while the separation of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Idea of the American University

    by John Agresto, William B. Allen, Gary D. Glenn, Susan E. Hanssen, Mark C. Henrie, William Mathie, Peter Wood, Michael P. Foley, Peter Augustine Lawler, Rev. James V. Schall, Bradley C. S. Watson ...
    As John Henry Newman reflected on 'The Idea of a University' more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather sad times of the American university, its relationship to democracy, and the place of the liberal ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    The Death of Learning

    How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It

    by John Agresto ...
    Narrated by Richard Ferrone ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 40 min

    The former president of St. Johns College reveals why 2,500 years of learning in the West is of inestimable value to all of us-and why its trashing is a crime of monumental proportions.The liberal arts are dying. They are dying because most Americans don’t see the point of them. Americans don’t understand why anyone would study literature or history or the classics—or, more contemporarily, ... Read more

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  • Why Liberalism Failed

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    How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life

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  • Cultivating Humanity

    A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
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    The History and Future of Civic Humanity

    by Mohammed A. Bamyeh ...
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