Books
The Academic Vocation Revisited
– A Symposium on Teaching, Learning, and Publishing, The Cresset (Valparaiso University), September 1985, 5-8.The Problem of Technology
– In Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Technology and the Western Political Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), 1-24.Human Being and Citizen: Plato’s Apology of Socrates and the Humanities
– In Philippe Desan, ed., Engaging the Humanities at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL: The College of the University of Chicago, 1995), 39-42.The Aims of Liberal Education
– In John Boyer, ed., The Aims of Education (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago, 1997), 81-106.Excerpt: What, then, could be left for the aim of liberal education if we exclude professional training, research and scholarship, general broadening and culture, the arts of learning, and… More
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
– University of Notre Dame Press, February 2000.Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It… More
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
– Free Press, 2003.Summary: As ardent debates over creationism fill the front pages of newspapers, Genesis has never been more timely. And as Leon R. Kass shows in The Beginning of Wisdom, it’s also… More
The Career of Leon Kass by Harvey Flaumenhaft
– Harvey Flaumenhaft, Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy 20:1 (2003).Excerpt: What has gone into making the remarkable career of Leon Kass? In sketching an answer to that question, it will be helpful for me to take account of what he himself has publicly had… More
Athens, Jerusalem, and Modern Science: An Interview with Leon Kass, Amy Apfel Kass, and Francis Oakley
– The Cresset LXXII (1): 27-33 (Michaelmas 2008).Excerpt: Those who, like Andrew Delbanco, advocate renewed efforts to bridge the gap between the “two cultures” of the sciences and the humanities as part of a larger endeavor to renew… More
Leon Kass Interview
– Humanities (May/June 2008).Excerpt: Chicago-born Leon Kass, the 2009 Jefferson Lecturer, sat with Humanities magazine to describe how as a young medical doctor he joined the civil rights movement, then changed course… More
A Truer Humanism
– Azure 5769, no. 34 (Autumn 2008).Abstract: Science gives us many gifts, but it cannot keep us from losing our souls in the bargain.
Looking for an Honest Man: Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist
– 38th Annual Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities, 21 May 2009.Excerpt: It is true that I have long been devoted to liberal education, and along with my wife, Amy Kass, and a few other colleagues at the University of Chicago, I helped found a… More
Tough Love for the Humanities
– Serena Golden, Inside Higher Ed, May 22, 2009.Excerpt: Kass argued that it is the job of the humanities to address “questions of ultimate concern: the character and source of the cosmic whole and the place and work of the human being… More
A Review of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
– Ryan T. Anderson, First Things, February 2011.Excerpt: Leon Kass is a national treasure. I first came across his work nearly a decade ago as he led the President’s Council on Bioethics to produce some of the finest reflections on… More
The Other War On Poverty
– “The Other War on Poverty: Finding Meaning in America,” 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, 2 May 2012.On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, American educator Leon R. Kass (b. 1939) delivered the 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute Annual Dinner in Washington, DC. In his… More
The Other War on Poverty
– “The Other War on Poverty: Finding Meaning in America,” 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, May 2, 2012.Excerpt: On this occasion twenty years ago, in his Boyer Lecture entitled “The Cultural Revolution and the Capitalist Future,” Irving Kristol explored the growing gap between our… More
Essays
The Academic Vocation Revisited
– A Symposium on Teaching, Learning, and Publishing, The Cresset (Valparaiso University), September 1985, 5-8.The Problem of Technology
– In Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Technology and the Western Political Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), 1-24.Human Being and Citizen: Plato’s Apology of Socrates and the Humanities
– In Philippe Desan, ed., Engaging the Humanities at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL: The College of the University of Chicago, 1995), 39-42.The Aims of Liberal Education
– In John Boyer, ed., The Aims of Education (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago, 1997), 81-106.Excerpt: What, then, could be left for the aim of liberal education if we exclude professional training, research and scholarship, general broadening and culture, the arts of learning, and… More
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
– University of Notre Dame Press, February 2000.Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It… More
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
– Free Press, 2003.Summary: As ardent debates over creationism fill the front pages of newspapers, Genesis has never been more timely. And as Leon R. Kass shows in The Beginning of Wisdom, it’s also… More
The Career of Leon Kass by Harvey Flaumenhaft
– Harvey Flaumenhaft, Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy 20:1 (2003).Excerpt: What has gone into making the remarkable career of Leon Kass? In sketching an answer to that question, it will be helpful for me to take account of what he himself has publicly had… More
Athens, Jerusalem, and Modern Science: An Interview with Leon Kass, Amy Apfel Kass, and Francis Oakley
– The Cresset LXXII (1): 27-33 (Michaelmas 2008).Excerpt: Those who, like Andrew Delbanco, advocate renewed efforts to bridge the gap between the “two cultures” of the sciences and the humanities as part of a larger endeavor to renew… More
Leon Kass Interview
– Humanities (May/June 2008).Excerpt: Chicago-born Leon Kass, the 2009 Jefferson Lecturer, sat with Humanities magazine to describe how as a young medical doctor he joined the civil rights movement, then changed course… More
A Truer Humanism
– Azure 5769, no. 34 (Autumn 2008).Abstract: Science gives us many gifts, but it cannot keep us from losing our souls in the bargain.
Looking for an Honest Man: Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist
– 38th Annual Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities, 21 May 2009.Excerpt: It is true that I have long been devoted to liberal education, and along with my wife, Amy Kass, and a few other colleagues at the University of Chicago, I helped found a… More
Tough Love for the Humanities
– Serena Golden, Inside Higher Ed, May 22, 2009.Excerpt: Kass argued that it is the job of the humanities to address “questions of ultimate concern: the character and source of the cosmic whole and the place and work of the human being… More
A Review of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
– Ryan T. Anderson, First Things, February 2011.Excerpt: Leon Kass is a national treasure. I first came across his work nearly a decade ago as he led the President’s Council on Bioethics to produce some of the finest reflections on… More
The Other War On Poverty
– “The Other War on Poverty: Finding Meaning in America,” 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, 2 May 2012.On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, American educator Leon R. Kass (b. 1939) delivered the 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute Annual Dinner in Washington, DC. In his… More
The Other War on Poverty
– “The Other War on Poverty: Finding Meaning in America,” 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, May 2, 2012.Excerpt: On this occasion twenty years ago, in his Boyer Lecture entitled “The Cultural Revolution and the Capitalist Future,” Irving Kristol explored the growing gap between our… More
Commentary
The Academic Vocation Revisited
– A Symposium on Teaching, Learning, and Publishing, The Cresset (Valparaiso University), September 1985, 5-8.The Problem of Technology
– In Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Technology and the Western Political Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), 1-24.Human Being and Citizen: Plato’s Apology of Socrates and the Humanities
– In Philippe Desan, ed., Engaging the Humanities at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL: The College of the University of Chicago, 1995), 39-42.The Aims of Liberal Education
– In John Boyer, ed., The Aims of Education (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago, 1997), 81-106.Excerpt: What, then, could be left for the aim of liberal education if we exclude professional training, research and scholarship, general broadening and culture, the arts of learning, and… More
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
– University of Notre Dame Press, February 2000.Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It… More
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
– Free Press, 2003.Summary: As ardent debates over creationism fill the front pages of newspapers, Genesis has never been more timely. And as Leon R. Kass shows in The Beginning of Wisdom, it’s also… More
The Career of Leon Kass by Harvey Flaumenhaft
– Harvey Flaumenhaft, Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy 20:1 (2003).Excerpt: What has gone into making the remarkable career of Leon Kass? In sketching an answer to that question, it will be helpful for me to take account of what he himself has publicly had… More
Athens, Jerusalem, and Modern Science: An Interview with Leon Kass, Amy Apfel Kass, and Francis Oakley
– The Cresset LXXII (1): 27-33 (Michaelmas 2008).Excerpt: Those who, like Andrew Delbanco, advocate renewed efforts to bridge the gap between the “two cultures” of the sciences and the humanities as part of a larger endeavor to renew… More
Leon Kass Interview
– Humanities (May/June 2008).Excerpt: Chicago-born Leon Kass, the 2009 Jefferson Lecturer, sat with Humanities magazine to describe how as a young medical doctor he joined the civil rights movement, then changed course… More
A Truer Humanism
– Azure 5769, no. 34 (Autumn 2008).Abstract: Science gives us many gifts, but it cannot keep us from losing our souls in the bargain.
Looking for an Honest Man: Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist
– 38th Annual Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities, 21 May 2009.Excerpt: It is true that I have long been devoted to liberal education, and along with my wife, Amy Kass, and a few other colleagues at the University of Chicago, I helped found a… More
Tough Love for the Humanities
– Serena Golden, Inside Higher Ed, May 22, 2009.Excerpt: Kass argued that it is the job of the humanities to address “questions of ultimate concern: the character and source of the cosmic whole and the place and work of the human being… More
A Review of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
– Ryan T. Anderson, First Things, February 2011.Excerpt: Leon Kass is a national treasure. I first came across his work nearly a decade ago as he led the President’s Council on Bioethics to produce some of the finest reflections on… More
The Other War On Poverty
– “The Other War on Poverty: Finding Meaning in America,” 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, 2 May 2012.On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, American educator Leon R. Kass (b. 1939) delivered the 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute Annual Dinner in Washington, DC. In his… More
The Other War on Poverty
– “The Other War on Poverty: Finding Meaning in America,” 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, May 2, 2012.Excerpt: On this occasion twenty years ago, in his Boyer Lecture entitled “The Cultural Revolution and the Capitalist Future,” Irving Kristol explored the growing gap between our… More
Multimedia
The Academic Vocation Revisited
– A Symposium on Teaching, Learning, and Publishing, The Cresset (Valparaiso University), September 1985, 5-8.The Problem of Technology
– In Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Technology and the Western Political Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), 1-24.Human Being and Citizen: Plato’s Apology of Socrates and the Humanities
– In Philippe Desan, ed., Engaging the Humanities at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL: The College of the University of Chicago, 1995), 39-42.The Aims of Liberal Education
– In John Boyer, ed., The Aims of Education (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago, 1997), 81-106.Excerpt: What, then, could be left for the aim of liberal education if we exclude professional training, research and scholarship, general broadening and culture, the arts of learning, and… More
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
– University of Notre Dame Press, February 2000.Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It… More
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
– Free Press, 2003.Summary: As ardent debates over creationism fill the front pages of newspapers, Genesis has never been more timely. And as Leon R. Kass shows in The Beginning of Wisdom, it’s also… More
The Career of Leon Kass by Harvey Flaumenhaft
– Harvey Flaumenhaft, Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy 20:1 (2003).Excerpt: What has gone into making the remarkable career of Leon Kass? In sketching an answer to that question, it will be helpful for me to take account of what he himself has publicly had… More
Athens, Jerusalem, and Modern Science: An Interview with Leon Kass, Amy Apfel Kass, and Francis Oakley
– The Cresset LXXII (1): 27-33 (Michaelmas 2008).Excerpt: Those who, like Andrew Delbanco, advocate renewed efforts to bridge the gap between the “two cultures” of the sciences and the humanities as part of a larger endeavor to renew… More
Leon Kass Interview
– Humanities (May/June 2008).Excerpt: Chicago-born Leon Kass, the 2009 Jefferson Lecturer, sat with Humanities magazine to describe how as a young medical doctor he joined the civil rights movement, then changed course… More
A Truer Humanism
– Azure 5769, no. 34 (Autumn 2008).Abstract: Science gives us many gifts, but it cannot keep us from losing our souls in the bargain.
Looking for an Honest Man: Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist
– 38th Annual Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities, 21 May 2009.Excerpt: It is true that I have long been devoted to liberal education, and along with my wife, Amy Kass, and a few other colleagues at the University of Chicago, I helped found a… More
Tough Love for the Humanities
– Serena Golden, Inside Higher Ed, May 22, 2009.Excerpt: Kass argued that it is the job of the humanities to address “questions of ultimate concern: the character and source of the cosmic whole and the place and work of the human being… More
A Review of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
– Ryan T. Anderson, First Things, February 2011.Excerpt: Leon Kass is a national treasure. I first came across his work nearly a decade ago as he led the President’s Council on Bioethics to produce some of the finest reflections on… More
The Other War On Poverty
– “The Other War on Poverty: Finding Meaning in America,” 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, 2 May 2012.On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, American educator Leon R. Kass (b. 1939) delivered the 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute Annual Dinner in Washington, DC. In his… More
The Other War on Poverty
– “The Other War on Poverty: Finding Meaning in America,” 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, May 2, 2012.Excerpt: On this occasion twenty years ago, in his Boyer Lecture entitled “The Cultural Revolution and the Capitalist Future,” Irving Kristol explored the growing gap between our… More
Teaching
The Academic Vocation Revisited
– A Symposium on Teaching, Learning, and Publishing, The Cresset (Valparaiso University), September 1985, 5-8.The Problem of Technology
– In Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Technology and the Western Political Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), 1-24.Human Being and Citizen: Plato’s Apology of Socrates and the Humanities
– In Philippe Desan, ed., Engaging the Humanities at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL: The College of the University of Chicago, 1995), 39-42.The Aims of Liberal Education
– In John Boyer, ed., The Aims of Education (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago, 1997), 81-106.Excerpt: What, then, could be left for the aim of liberal education if we exclude professional training, research and scholarship, general broadening and culture, the arts of learning, and… More
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
– University of Notre Dame Press, February 2000.Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It… More
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
– Free Press, 2003.Summary: As ardent debates over creationism fill the front pages of newspapers, Genesis has never been more timely. And as Leon R. Kass shows in The Beginning of Wisdom, it’s also… More
The Career of Leon Kass by Harvey Flaumenhaft
– Harvey Flaumenhaft, Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy 20:1 (2003).Excerpt: What has gone into making the remarkable career of Leon Kass? In sketching an answer to that question, it will be helpful for me to take account of what he himself has publicly had… More
Athens, Jerusalem, and Modern Science: An Interview with Leon Kass, Amy Apfel Kass, and Francis Oakley
– The Cresset LXXII (1): 27-33 (Michaelmas 2008).Excerpt: Those who, like Andrew Delbanco, advocate renewed efforts to bridge the gap between the “two cultures” of the sciences and the humanities as part of a larger endeavor to renew… More
Leon Kass Interview
– Humanities (May/June 2008).Excerpt: Chicago-born Leon Kass, the 2009 Jefferson Lecturer, sat with Humanities magazine to describe how as a young medical doctor he joined the civil rights movement, then changed course… More
A Truer Humanism
– Azure 5769, no. 34 (Autumn 2008).Abstract: Science gives us many gifts, but it cannot keep us from losing our souls in the bargain.
Looking for an Honest Man: Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist
– 38th Annual Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities, 21 May 2009.Excerpt: It is true that I have long been devoted to liberal education, and along with my wife, Amy Kass, and a few other colleagues at the University of Chicago, I helped found a… More
Tough Love for the Humanities
– Serena Golden, Inside Higher Ed, May 22, 2009.Excerpt: Kass argued that it is the job of the humanities to address “questions of ultimate concern: the character and source of the cosmic whole and the place and work of the human being… More
A Review of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
– Ryan T. Anderson, First Things, February 2011.Excerpt: Leon Kass is a national treasure. I first came across his work nearly a decade ago as he led the President’s Council on Bioethics to produce some of the finest reflections on… More
The Other War On Poverty
– “The Other War on Poverty: Finding Meaning in America,” 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, 2 May 2012.On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, American educator Leon R. Kass (b. 1939) delivered the 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute Annual Dinner in Washington, DC. In his… More
The Other War on Poverty
– “The Other War on Poverty: Finding Meaning in America,” 2012 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, May 2, 2012.Excerpt: On this occasion twenty years ago, in his Boyer Lecture entitled “The Cultural Revolution and the Capitalist Future,” Irving Kristol explored the growing gap between our… More