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"The Advent of a New Anarchy"
"Against School"
"The Arroyo Regime's Nightmare"
"Bittersweet Symphonies"
"Bored of the Rings" (the original article can be found here)
"C Sharp? What's C Sharp?"
"Can't Take That Away from Me"
"The Children Who Won't Grow Up"
"Cultural
Illiteracy"
"A Damaged Culture"
"A Damaged Culture" by James Fallows
"Don't Knock Baroque"
"Education as 'Transformative Rite'"
"Education's Self-Esteem Hoax" (or here)
"The Enron Collapse and the Crisis of the Profit System"
"ET and God" (or here, here, here, here, and here) (and an award)
"Fatal Game-Show Stampede--An Exploitation of Social Despair"
"The Fetish for Grades"
"Finland's Music Proves There Is Life After Sibelius"
"Freedoms of the Past" (no longer available; see Harper's Magazine, 4/1/1995)
"The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth"
"The Good Teacher"
Great Books of the Western World Ten-Year Reading Plan
"A Heritage of Smallness"
"Higher Learning"
"How to Fail"
"How to Fail a Course"
"The Idea of a University"
"Ignorant,
But Full of Self-Esteem" (or here)
"In Defense of Memorization"
"Informing Ourselves to Death"
"Interview: Jacques Barzun"
"In Praise of Idleness"
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
"Letter
to My Students"
"Literacy of College Students Is on Decline"
"MahVuhHuhPuh"
"The Mighty River of Classics"
"Mind Your Language--It Matters!"
"The Miseducation of the Filipino"
"My Graduation Speech"
"Neil Potman: A Civilized Man in a Century of Barbarism"
"Norton Frye on the Importance of Poetry in the Highschool and Elementary Curriculum"
"Not so 'Bright'"
"Now Showing: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Americans"
"On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students " (or here)
"Only Adults Can Be Educated"
"The Organization Kid"
George Orwell essays
"Misery Loves Company" (Part 1) and "Unwitting Ally of Globalization" (Part 2)
"The Perpetual Adolescent" (or here)
"Poetry and the Politics of Self-Expression"
"The
Problem with Self-Esteem"
"Pursuing Happiness, Through Hard Work" (or here, or here)
"Read by Millions"
"Reading for Sheer Pleasure--Remember That?"
"The Roots of Crisis: A Neo-Colonial State"
"The Sacred and the Human"
St. John's College Essays
"Selling Henry James"
"Shattuck's 19 Theses (on Literature)" (a revised version)
"Tests Are No Great Gauge of Learning" (and the longer speech)
"The
Singer Solution to World Poverty"
"Some Issues Raised by Michael Jordan's Retirement"
"Spirituality and the Fine-Tuned Cosmos" (or here, and an award)
"The Teacher's Source of Authority"
"A Teacher's Tough Model"
"There Are No Shortcuts"
"Two Cheers for Colonialism" (or here)
"Uniting the Great Books and Faith"
"War and Peace"
"What A Cute Universe You Have!"
"What is Elitism?"
'When Evil is Cool" (see Atlantic Monthly, Jan. '99; also, enter the title in Google and look for the link to Questia)
"Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong" (or here)
"Why Should Businessmen Read Great Literature?"
"The World Gets in Touch with Its Inner American"
"Writing: A Ticket to Work" (PDF)
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