We meet people like John Erskine, the grandfather of the Great Books movement and a “gentleman of the old school,” as Beam describes him. Erskine believed a great book was one that “has meaning, and ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced a new graduate program that reshapes what it means to study the Great Books in the 21st century. The Master of Arts in Middle ...

Directed Studies, Yale’s year-long Great Books program for first-year undergraduates, could expand by as much as 25 percent next year, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis said in an interview. On ...

The Trump-overhauled National Endowment for the Humanities announced $75.1 million in grants. Western civilization, great ...

Roosevelt Montás is an outspoken advocate for a humanistic liberal arts education rooted in transformative texts, particularly the Great Books tradition. As director of Columbia’s Center for the Core ...

Established in 1947 by a group of prominent citizens led by University of Chicago Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Adler, the Great Books Foundation began as a grassroots movement to ...