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...
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...
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 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...
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,...
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...
As many of you know, Current will officially drop on April 5, 2021. On that day we will publish five short essays (and an editor’s introduction) on the left side of this website. We are excited to announce our opening...
How shall we live? Where do we find the resources for living well? In this episode, historian Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn examines the reappearance of ancient philosophical thought in contemporary American culture. She argues that we need to take back philosophy as...
The Way of Improvement Leads Home is not really a small business, but we do offer services to the general public that we believe are essential for our life as citizens in a democracy. As more and more of you...
Over at The Front Porch Republic, Jeff Bilbro has a fascinating and brilliant review of a conference at Calvin College titled “Faith and Democracy in America: Christianity and Liberalism Rightly Understood.” Here is a taste: In early December, the Acton...
The biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History took place on October 3-6, 2018. I am honored to have served as the program chair for the meeting. Lectures by Margaret Bendroth, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Beth Allison Barr, and Jemar...
The 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History is over. As program chair, I spent most of the weekend pinch-hitting for folks who were unable to come and making sure our plenary speakers were comfortable. This is...
Over Syracuse.com, Syracuse University history professor Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn calls for a “new inwardness.” Here is a taste: We live in an era in which “self-reigns” is supreme. In the era of the selfie, isn’t the problem that too many have...
The Fall 2018 meeting of the Conference on Faith and History (CFH) will be meeting at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan from October 4-6, 2018. This year’s conference theme is “History and the Search for Meaning: The CFH at...
l to r: Fox, Miller, Westbrook, and Lasch-Quinn Over at his blog In Media Res, Friends University political scientist Russell Arben Fox offers a summary post of a session on Christopher Lasch and localism at a recent Front Porch Republic gathering...
Lasch-Quinn Lasch-Quinn describe her latest visit to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University Of Virginia, an institute run by James Davison Hunter. But what makes IASC stand out so much for me, what makes it so […]
Over at the blog of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn discusses a fascinating new project from the Association of American Colleges and Universities called “Bringing Theory to Practice.” Here is a description of the project: The Bringing...
