Recently added articles from Vitae Scholasticae:
Editors' note.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Welcome, readers, to the 2006 issue of Vitae Scholasticae! When putting this issue together we had fun finding threads and themes that carried through the articles. In "Illich's Table," Daniel Grego offers us a lovely meditation on the ideas of Ivan Illich who died in 2002. He begins with ...
Illich's table.(Ivan Illich)(Brief biography)(Report)
Jan 01, 2006; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Is it not the case that our world is out of whack with any prior historical epoch?" (1) --Ivan Illich 1. In 1985, Wendell Berry wrote an essay entitled "What Are People For?" He recounted the mass migration in the ...
Alice White: the principal who influenced Rosa Parks (1).(Brief biography)(Report)
Jan 01, 2006; ... The recent passing of Rosa Parks has prompted interest in the life story of the civil rights heroine who quietly refused to be treated as a second-class citizen. Fourteen years before her death, Parks recalled in her autobiography that her school principal, Alice White, was an important ...
Academic freedom and the lost cause: the short career of professor Joseph Baldwin at the University of Texas.(Report)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Recent controversy over the contrarian views of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks espoused by University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill and University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett serves as a reminder that public universities are essentially political institutions, because ...
Herland revisited: narratives of motherhood, domesticity, and physical emancipation in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist utopia.(Report)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Preface On April 2, 2006, in the Toronto Star, a feature article entitled "Working Girls, Broken Society" is published. This article examines a recent theory by Professor Alison Wolf, a professor of public sector management at King's College, London, and the author of Does ...