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Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

Current contributing editor Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn receives a “notable mention” in the 2023 edition of Best American Essays

John Fea   |  October 24, 2023

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn‘s essay, “Pastlessness,” was published in the Summer 2022 issue of The Hedgehog Review. See her published work at Current here, including her most recent piece, “Remembering the University’s Mission.” She is an original member of the Current board […]

Pedagogy as therapy?

John Fea   |  July 25, 2023

Is the goal of education for students to feel good about themselves? Is it a form of therapy? Len Gurkin tackles this issue at The Chronicle of Education. Here is a small taste: Vincent Lloyd…widely read essay in Compact, “A Black […]

A symposium on Current contributing editor Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn’s Ars Vitae

John Fea   |  April 4, 2022

The Carl F.H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School recently hosted a symposium on Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn’s Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Way of Living. (Some of you may recall […]

Eric Miller reviews Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn’s Ars Vitae

John Fea   |  June 26, 2021

Eric Miller is editor of Current. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn is a Current contributor. And some of you recall my podcast conversation with Lasch-Quinn in Episode 77 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. Here is a taste of Miller’s review […]

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn on Bridgerton

John Fea   |  May 28, 2021

If you like Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn’s writing at Current, you will also enjoy her recent piece at Zocalo Public Square. Here is a taste: “Everything is broken,” repeated the chorus of a Bob Dylan song from his 1989 album Oh Mercy—strings (guitar, […]

Lasch-Quinn will lecture “On the Importance of a Philosophy of Life.”

John Fea   |  April 8, 2021

It is not too late to catch Current contributor and Syracuse University historian Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn this afternoon via Zoom. Here is more about her 4:30pm (CT) lecture at Roosevelt University: The Montesquieu Forum for the Study of Civic Life welcomes […]