Vitae Scholasticae articles

Recent articles from Vitae Scholasticae

Editors' note.(Editorial)
January 1, 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 the...

Illich's table.(Ivan Illich)(Brief biography)(Report)
January 1, 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 Twentieth Century of U.S. farmers...

Alice White: the principal who influenced Rosa Parks (1).(Brief biography)(Report)
January 1, 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)
January 1, 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)
January 1, 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 Education...