Books
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
Great Expectations: Studying with Leon Kass by Yuval Levin
– Yuval Levin, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2009.Excerpt: “Are you impressed with Rebecca at the well? Would you bring her home to meet your parents?” The question hung in the air, and with it the familiar sense of excitement and… More
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
What So Proudly We Hail, The American Soul In Story, Speech, And Song
– Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2012.Summary: This wonderfully rich anthology uses the soul-shaping power of story, speech, and song to help Americans realize more deeply—and appreciate more fully—who they are as citizens… More
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass
– Yuval Levin, Thomas W. Merrill, and Adam Schulman, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, May 25, 2010.Summary: Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades—as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender… 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
2011 Bradley Symposium: True Americanism: What It Is and Why It Matters
– The 2011 Bradley Symposium: True Americanism: What It Is and Why It Matters, Hudson Institute, 11 May 2011.What does it mean to be an American? To what larger community and ideals are we attached and devoted? The editors of What So Proudly We Hail are joined by leading thinkers to consider these… More
Seminar on National Identity: “The Man without a Country” by Edward Everett Hale
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.It is probably no accident that Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was a life-long American patriot. He was the nephew of Edward Everett, renowned orator and statesman. And his father, Nathan… More
Seminar on Freedom and Religion: “The May-Pole of Merry Mount” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), novelist and short story writer, was born in Salem, Massachusetts into an old, established New England family. His great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne,… More
Seminar on Self-Command: “The Project for Moral Perfection” by Benjamin Franklin
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.As the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was by custom and tradition destined to be a nobody. Yet thanks to his own resourcefulness,… More
Seminar on Law-Abidingness: “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) was an award-winning playwright and novelist, a writer of short stories, and, for a short while, a journalist. This story, “A Jury of Her Peers” (1917),… More
Seminar on Courage and Self-Sacrifice: “Chamberlain” by Michael Shaara and Speech to the Third Army by George S. Patton
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Courage is a virtue difficult to cultivate, especially among self-interested citizens oriented toward the pursuit of their own happiness. At the extreme, why shouldn’t I prefer the… More
Seminar on Compassion: “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville”
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Herman Melville (1819-1891), today hailed as one of America’s greatest writers, had in his own time a very mixed career. Some of his early sea-stories and sea-adventures were esteemed by… More
Seminar on Making One Out of Many: “The Namesake,” by Willa Cather
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947), one of America’s most beloved authors, is best known for her novels depicting the lives of people who settled the American heartland and the Southwest: O!… More
Online Course on The Meaning of America
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.What kind of citizens are likely to emerge in a nation founded on individual rights, equality, enterprise and commerce, and freedom of religion? What virtues are required for a robust… More
Online course on The American Calendar
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Why do we have national public holidays? What does each—and what do all—contribute to our common life as Americans? The American Calendar explores the purpose and meaning of our civic… More
Essays
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
Great Expectations: Studying with Leon Kass by Yuval Levin
– Yuval Levin, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2009.Excerpt: “Are you impressed with Rebecca at the well? Would you bring her home to meet your parents?” The question hung in the air, and with it the familiar sense of excitement and… More
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
What So Proudly We Hail, The American Soul In Story, Speech, And Song
– Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2012.Summary: This wonderfully rich anthology uses the soul-shaping power of story, speech, and song to help Americans realize more deeply—and appreciate more fully—who they are as citizens… More
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass
– Yuval Levin, Thomas W. Merrill, and Adam Schulman, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, May 25, 2010.Summary: Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades—as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender… 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
2011 Bradley Symposium: True Americanism: What It Is and Why It Matters
– The 2011 Bradley Symposium: True Americanism: What It Is and Why It Matters, Hudson Institute, 11 May 2011.What does it mean to be an American? To what larger community and ideals are we attached and devoted? The editors of What So Proudly We Hail are joined by leading thinkers to consider these… More
Seminar on National Identity: “The Man without a Country” by Edward Everett Hale
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.It is probably no accident that Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was a life-long American patriot. He was the nephew of Edward Everett, renowned orator and statesman. And his father, Nathan… More
Seminar on Freedom and Religion: “The May-Pole of Merry Mount” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), novelist and short story writer, was born in Salem, Massachusetts into an old, established New England family. His great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne,… More
Seminar on Self-Command: “The Project for Moral Perfection” by Benjamin Franklin
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.As the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was by custom and tradition destined to be a nobody. Yet thanks to his own resourcefulness,… More
Seminar on Law-Abidingness: “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) was an award-winning playwright and novelist, a writer of short stories, and, for a short while, a journalist. This story, “A Jury of Her Peers” (1917),… More
Seminar on Courage and Self-Sacrifice: “Chamberlain” by Michael Shaara and Speech to the Third Army by George S. Patton
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Courage is a virtue difficult to cultivate, especially among self-interested citizens oriented toward the pursuit of their own happiness. At the extreme, why shouldn’t I prefer the… More
Seminar on Compassion: “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville”
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Herman Melville (1819-1891), today hailed as one of America’s greatest writers, had in his own time a very mixed career. Some of his early sea-stories and sea-adventures were esteemed by… More
Seminar on Making One Out of Many: “The Namesake,” by Willa Cather
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947), one of America’s most beloved authors, is best known for her novels depicting the lives of people who settled the American heartland and the Southwest: O!… More
Online Course on The Meaning of America
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.What kind of citizens are likely to emerge in a nation founded on individual rights, equality, enterprise and commerce, and freedom of religion? What virtues are required for a robust… More
Online course on The American Calendar
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Why do we have national public holidays? What does each—and what do all—contribute to our common life as Americans? The American Calendar explores the purpose and meaning of our civic… More
Commentary
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
Great Expectations: Studying with Leon Kass by Yuval Levin
– Yuval Levin, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2009.Excerpt: “Are you impressed with Rebecca at the well? Would you bring her home to meet your parents?” The question hung in the air, and with it the familiar sense of excitement and… More
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
What So Proudly We Hail, The American Soul In Story, Speech, And Song
– Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2012.Summary: This wonderfully rich anthology uses the soul-shaping power of story, speech, and song to help Americans realize more deeply—and appreciate more fully—who they are as citizens… More
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass
– Yuval Levin, Thomas W. Merrill, and Adam Schulman, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, May 25, 2010.Summary: Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades—as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender… 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
2011 Bradley Symposium: True Americanism: What It Is and Why It Matters
– The 2011 Bradley Symposium: True Americanism: What It Is and Why It Matters, Hudson Institute, 11 May 2011.What does it mean to be an American? To what larger community and ideals are we attached and devoted? The editors of What So Proudly We Hail are joined by leading thinkers to consider these… More
Seminar on National Identity: “The Man without a Country” by Edward Everett Hale
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.It is probably no accident that Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was a life-long American patriot. He was the nephew of Edward Everett, renowned orator and statesman. And his father, Nathan… More
Seminar on Freedom and Religion: “The May-Pole of Merry Mount” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), novelist and short story writer, was born in Salem, Massachusetts into an old, established New England family. His great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne,… More
Seminar on Self-Command: “The Project for Moral Perfection” by Benjamin Franklin
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.As the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was by custom and tradition destined to be a nobody. Yet thanks to his own resourcefulness,… More
Seminar on Law-Abidingness: “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) was an award-winning playwright and novelist, a writer of short stories, and, for a short while, a journalist. This story, “A Jury of Her Peers” (1917),… More
Seminar on Courage and Self-Sacrifice: “Chamberlain” by Michael Shaara and Speech to the Third Army by George S. Patton
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Courage is a virtue difficult to cultivate, especially among self-interested citizens oriented toward the pursuit of their own happiness. At the extreme, why shouldn’t I prefer the… More
Seminar on Compassion: “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville”
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Herman Melville (1819-1891), today hailed as one of America’s greatest writers, had in his own time a very mixed career. Some of his early sea-stories and sea-adventures were esteemed by… More
Seminar on Making One Out of Many: “The Namesake,” by Willa Cather
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947), one of America’s most beloved authors, is best known for her novels depicting the lives of people who settled the American heartland and the Southwest: O!… More
Online Course on The Meaning of America
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.What kind of citizens are likely to emerge in a nation founded on individual rights, equality, enterprise and commerce, and freedom of religion? What virtues are required for a robust… More
Online course on The American Calendar
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Why do we have national public holidays? What does each—and what do all—contribute to our common life as Americans? The American Calendar explores the purpose and meaning of our civic… More
Multimedia
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
Great Expectations: Studying with Leon Kass by Yuval Levin
– Yuval Levin, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2009.Excerpt: “Are you impressed with Rebecca at the well? Would you bring her home to meet your parents?” The question hung in the air, and with it the familiar sense of excitement and… More
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
What So Proudly We Hail, The American Soul In Story, Speech, And Song
– Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2012.Summary: This wonderfully rich anthology uses the soul-shaping power of story, speech, and song to help Americans realize more deeply—and appreciate more fully—who they are as citizens… More
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass
– Yuval Levin, Thomas W. Merrill, and Adam Schulman, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, May 25, 2010.Summary: Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades—as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender… 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
2011 Bradley Symposium: True Americanism: What It Is and Why It Matters
– The 2011 Bradley Symposium: True Americanism: What It Is and Why It Matters, Hudson Institute, 11 May 2011.What does it mean to be an American? To what larger community and ideals are we attached and devoted? The editors of What So Proudly We Hail are joined by leading thinkers to consider these… More
Seminar on National Identity: “The Man without a Country” by Edward Everett Hale
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.It is probably no accident that Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was a life-long American patriot. He was the nephew of Edward Everett, renowned orator and statesman. And his father, Nathan… More
Seminar on Freedom and Religion: “The May-Pole of Merry Mount” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), novelist and short story writer, was born in Salem, Massachusetts into an old, established New England family. His great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne,… More
Seminar on Self-Command: “The Project for Moral Perfection” by Benjamin Franklin
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.As the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was by custom and tradition destined to be a nobody. Yet thanks to his own resourcefulness,… More
Seminar on Law-Abidingness: “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) was an award-winning playwright and novelist, a writer of short stories, and, for a short while, a journalist. This story, “A Jury of Her Peers” (1917),… More
Seminar on Courage and Self-Sacrifice: “Chamberlain” by Michael Shaara and Speech to the Third Army by George S. Patton
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Courage is a virtue difficult to cultivate, especially among self-interested citizens oriented toward the pursuit of their own happiness. At the extreme, why shouldn’t I prefer the… More
Seminar on Compassion: “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville”
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Herman Melville (1819-1891), today hailed as one of America’s greatest writers, had in his own time a very mixed career. Some of his early sea-stories and sea-adventures were esteemed by… More
Seminar on Making One Out of Many: “The Namesake,” by Willa Cather
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947), one of America’s most beloved authors, is best known for her novels depicting the lives of people who settled the American heartland and the Southwest: O!… More
Online Course on The Meaning of America
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.What kind of citizens are likely to emerge in a nation founded on individual rights, equality, enterprise and commerce, and freedom of religion? What virtues are required for a robust… More
Online course on The American Calendar
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Why do we have national public holidays? What does each—and what do all—contribute to our common life as Americans? The American Calendar explores the purpose and meaning of our civic… More
Teaching
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
Great Expectations: Studying with Leon Kass by Yuval Levin
– Yuval Levin, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2009.Excerpt: “Are you impressed with Rebecca at the well? Would you bring her home to meet your parents?” The question hung in the air, and with it the familiar sense of excitement and… More
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
What So Proudly We Hail, The American Soul In Story, Speech, And Song
– Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2012.Summary: This wonderfully rich anthology uses the soul-shaping power of story, speech, and song to help Americans realize more deeply—and appreciate more fully—who they are as citizens… More
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass
– Yuval Levin, Thomas W. Merrill, and Adam Schulman, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, May 25, 2010.Summary: Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades—as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender… 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
2011 Bradley Symposium: True Americanism: What It Is and Why It Matters
– The 2011 Bradley Symposium: True Americanism: What It Is and Why It Matters, Hudson Institute, 11 May 2011.What does it mean to be an American? To what larger community and ideals are we attached and devoted? The editors of What So Proudly We Hail are joined by leading thinkers to consider these… More
Seminar on National Identity: “The Man without a Country” by Edward Everett Hale
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.It is probably no accident that Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was a life-long American patriot. He was the nephew of Edward Everett, renowned orator and statesman. And his father, Nathan… More
Seminar on Freedom and Religion: “The May-Pole of Merry Mount” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), novelist and short story writer, was born in Salem, Massachusetts into an old, established New England family. His great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne,… More
Seminar on Self-Command: “The Project for Moral Perfection” by Benjamin Franklin
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.As the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was by custom and tradition destined to be a nobody. Yet thanks to his own resourcefulness,… More
Seminar on Law-Abidingness: “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) was an award-winning playwright and novelist, a writer of short stories, and, for a short while, a journalist. This story, “A Jury of Her Peers” (1917),… More
Seminar on Courage and Self-Sacrifice: “Chamberlain” by Michael Shaara and Speech to the Third Army by George S. Patton
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Courage is a virtue difficult to cultivate, especially among self-interested citizens oriented toward the pursuit of their own happiness. At the extreme, why shouldn’t I prefer the… More
Seminar on Compassion: “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville”
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Herman Melville (1819-1891), today hailed as one of America’s greatest writers, had in his own time a very mixed career. Some of his early sea-stories and sea-adventures were esteemed by… More
Seminar on Making One Out of Many: “The Namesake,” by Willa Cather
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947), one of America’s most beloved authors, is best known for her novels depicting the lives of people who settled the American heartland and the Southwest: O!… More
Online Course on The Meaning of America
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.What kind of citizens are likely to emerge in a nation founded on individual rights, equality, enterprise and commerce, and freedom of religion? What virtues are required for a robust… More
Online course on The American Calendar
– WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.Why do we have national public holidays? What does each—and what do all—contribute to our common life as Americans? The American Calendar explores the purpose and meaning of our civic… More