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Mr. William C. Michael, O.P

School Attendance is A Modern Idea

We don’t realize how recent widespread school attendance is. “In [1890], only between 6 and 7 percent of the population of youth fourteen to seventeen…

Kliebard, The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-online/06ff2c56-b564-4d3a-9ab7-845b01286049/book/epub?context=ubx “The most famous document of nineteenth-century mental disciplinarianism was the report of the Yale faculty in 1828, essentially an impassioned defense of traditional education…

Arabic to Latin Translation (Burnett)

Burnett, Charles. 2009. Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages : The Translators and Their Intellectual and Social Context. Ashgate/Variorum.

Aristotle in the Middle Ages

Kretzmann, Norman, Anthony John Patrick Kenny, and Jan Pinborg. 1982. The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy : From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration…

The Muqqadimah

Ibn Khaldûn, Princeton University Press. 2020-03-31 This fall I am reading the Muqqadima by the 14th c. Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun. I will share my…

AI Will Make the Intelligent More Productive

Google searches were limited by the quality of keywords entered by users. Intelligent, articulate searchers obtained great results; ignorant, clumsy searches did not. The same…

Christ vs. the Law (Galatians)

According to St. Paul, all Jews are cursed. “Cursed be everyone who does not persevere in doing all the things written in the book of…

Matthew 22:1-14

1 And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying: 2 The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king, who made a marriage…

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