Aaron Belz

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Aaron Belz Oct 24, 2008

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Angry Notes

Poems that are a delight to speak aloud and whose contents are worth pondering.

Aaron Belz Sep 21, 2007

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‘A dangerous and disturbing development’

In the September 16 2007 Boston Globe, Anthony Kronman—the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University—writes, "In a shift of historic importance, America's college and universities have largely abandoned the idea that life's most important question is an appropriate...

Aaron Belz Dec 1, 2005 What is to be done?

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What is to be done… about schooling?

Aaron Belz thinks the contemporary high school classroom is a bastion of the bourgeois, that students who excel in this environment are gifted at waiting in line at the drinking fountain, and that the Socratic method is a form of hectoring. He offers an alternative way of doing . . . schooling.

Aaron Belz Mar 1, 2003

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Planet-Like Music

An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy) by Philip Sidney, R. W. Maslen, ed. (Manchester University Press, 2002, 304 pp, $36.95) In what has been called the "most stylish and seductive work of literary theory written in the Renaissance," Sir Philip Sidney...

Aaron Belz Sep 1, 2002

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On Craft

With Comment, we try and connect three things in every issue (although not necessarily all three at the same time in every single piece we publish): (1) the Christian worldview, (2) everyday-work-as-cultural-engagement, and (3) economic life.We are convinced that work...