Volume 84 (CD Edition)

Guests on Volume 84: Harry R. Lewis, on higher education’s amnesia about its purposes, and how that shortchanges students; Nicholas Wolterstorff, on Abraham Kuyper (1837-1927), the French Revolution, worldviews, and “sphere sovereignty”; Brendan Sweetman, on why religious worldviews should not be excluded from political life; James Turner Johnson, on the development of Christian thought about the meaning of marriage; David Martin, on how the 1960s replayed themes of the 1890s and 1930s; and Edward Ericson, Jr., on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s beginnings and legacy. “There is a great role that the arts play in lifting the human spirit in a way that few other things in life do.”  —Harry R. Lewis  Professor Harry R. Lewis discusses the state of contemporary university education and what it could offer students. Lewis is author of Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education. He explains that universities in America have forgotten that their task is in part to educate