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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have our colleges and universities lost sight of their purpose? Among the more formidable attempts to help higher education address life’s big questions was the Great Books movement, closely ...

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 ...