INSIDE THE LIBERAL ARTS
Critical Thinking and Citizenship
(Rowman & Littlefield , 2023)
As no better man advances to take this matter in hand, I hereupon offer my own poor endeavors.
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
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Co-Editor (with John E. MacKinnon): Renford Bambrough and the Roots of Reason: Selected Essays. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
his post is something of an outlier, in that it concerns a member of my family. But it’s also an interesting story about a kind of cultural citizenship: a long-hidden act of witness. And it fits right in with a theme I’ve pursued (unconsciously it seems, yet it’s a clear red threat) in various essays going back thirty years: the theme of secular resurrection. By that I mean discovering significance in the lives of forgotten people.