The American technology industry has produced untold wealth, innovation, and convenience for many around the world. But there are costs associated with these advancements. This second CCA of the 2020-2021 academic year will examine both the promises and dangers of big tech. <!-- << Back to Upcoming CCAs-->
“What spectacle can be more edifying,” James Madison wrote in 1822, “than that of liberty and learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?” It was long and widely understood in America that a certain kind of education is essential to the maintenance of a free society. It is less well […]
Elsa Solender, past president of the Jane Austen Society of North America, has written: “The 1940 Pride and Prejudice, progenitor of sixty years of filmed adaptations of Austen, earned never-ending scorn from some, everlasting affection from others. Its glorious life and afterlife might teach us to moderate the demand for ‘fidelity,’ instead of magic, in […]
April 26-27, 2021 Franklin, Tennessee <!--Watch the Livestream--> <!-- https://players.brightcove.net/4828955589001/experience_5e99d52eafdf400018ae127f/share.html-->
Contact Gena Grant or Janelle Hiszak-Pickard (517) 607-2563 [email protected] Details and Registration Register Online
Contact Gena Grant or Janelle Hiszak-Pickard (517) 607-2563 [email protected] Details and Registration Register Online
Contact Gena Grant or Janelle Hiszak-Pickard (517) 607-2563 [email protected] Details and Registration Register Online
Is the United States a republic, a constitutional democracy, or both? One thing is certain: it is neither in the absence of fair, free, and open elections. This first CCA of the 2021-22 academic year will explore past critical elections, recent efforts at electoral reform, and the controversy over the 2020 election. Watch Livestream […]
In 2020, members of the world’s elite met at the World Economic Forum and launched the Great Reset initiative to transform the world economy. Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive director of the Forum, wrote, “Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must […]
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien wrote some of the twentieth century’s most beloved works of literature, including robust defenses of the Christian faith. Together with Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and others, Lewis and Tolkien were members of an informal professor-student literary group at Oxford in the 1930s and 40s known as the Inklings. This third […]