ESSAYS & ARTICLES

ESSAYS & MONOGRAPHS

• “Why Democracies Need the Liberal Arts” Change - The Magazine of Higher Education 55:6 (Nov.-Dec. 2023).

• “Les démocraties ne peuvent pas faire l’impasse sur les arts libéraux” Revue des Deux Mondes (France), Dec. 2023

• “Critical Moral Thinking: Some Stars to Steer By,” ETC: A Review of General Semantics ( 2021-2022). 

• “A Tale of Two Colleges: The Liberal Arts at Reed, Swarthmore, and Beyond,” Journal of Liberal Arts and Humanities 3:11 (Nov. 2022).

•  “Morality and the Liberal Arts: Six Axes of Connection” Journal of Educational Thought 55:1 (June 2022): 5-21.

• “Science and the Spectrum of Critical Thinking,” in Nima Rezaei, ed., Integrated Science Series, Vol. VI: Brain, Decision Making, and Mental Health. Springer Nature: 2021. 

• Critical Thinking and the Liberal Arts – Academe, November-December 2015.

• The Liberal Arts and Triangular Citizenship – The Academe Blog, Fall 2015.

• Academia’s Royal Orphan: The Strange History of Critical Thinking — Inquiry: A Journal of Critical Thinking (Spring 2024).

• Terrorism and Morality Reconsidered (FORTHCOMING) The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs (Summer 2025).

• Jane’s World: Encounters with a Nantucket Artist — Rock Salt Journal (Spring 2024).

• The Kennedy Western. Journal of the West 61:3 (Summer 2022): 3-8.

• New York’s Vanishing Visionary: The Quiet Mysteries of Charles B. Stover. The Lookout Press, 2011.

• The Conscience of a Collector – The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2010.

• The Roots of Reason: the Philosophical Legacy of J. Renford Bambrough – Philosophy Now, March-April 2010.

• Clusters – The Gettysburg Review, Spring 2003.

• Landmarks: An Aviator’s Spiritual Geography – The Potomac Review, Fall-Winter 2002-2003.

• Blue Ghost: The Civil War Letters of Alvah Kirk – New York History, April 1992.

• Moral Dimensions of Terrorism – The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Winter 1990.

• Legacy of Light: University Settlement’s First Century. New York: University Settlement, 1985.

• Co-author, Declining Test Scores: A State Study – Boston: Mass. Dept. of Education, 1976.

ASSORTED ARTICLES

• Pen Pals – Pen World, December 2014.

• On and Off the Paternoster: Philosophy at Swarthmore and After – Swarthmore College Bulletin, April 2009.

• A Parent’s Passage, from The Rudolf Steiner School: 75 Years of Waldorf Education, 2004.

• Hooked: A Journal of Addiction and Malediction – WFtheColiseum.com, 2000; reprinted in: When Falls the Coliseum, ed. Scott Stein & C.P. Kayser (Free Reign Press, 2001).

• Reminiscences of a Collector by H. Pearlman. (Ed. and Foreword by J. Scheuer). Princeton: The Art Museum, 1995.

• The Television Thing – Dissent, Summer 1995.

• Taking Flight – Hudson Valley Magazine, 1992.

• Prague Summer: After The Revolution – Swarthmore College Bulletin, May 1991.

• Black & Blue & Gray: an Interview with Allan Gurganus – Poets & Writers, cover; Nov-Dec 1990.

TRAVEL ARTICLES

• Cruise Along the Yangtze, The New York Times, October 1986.

• Slipping Into the Silent Winter of Yellowstone, Washington Post, November 1986.

• Quiet Splendors of an Alaskan Voyage, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 1985.

• Death Valley Miami Herald, Nov. 1990.

• North to Adventure: Wilderness Seaplane Pilot Course, Private Pilot Magazine, April 1997.