Truth on Trial: The Rise and Fall of the Integrated Humanities Program at the University of Kansas (The Adeodatus Series on Catholic Education and Culture)

In this reprinting of Truth on Trial, Robert Carlson outlines the sad state of higher education in America, where "learning" is increasingly disconnected from the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty that has always been its most important heritage, replaced by an environment where any view that is not ‘politically correct’ is persecuted and disdained.Drawing upon his own experiences in the transformational Integrated Humanities Program (IHP) at the University of Kansas (KU), Carlson details the crisis that faces education today, and uses the lessons learned through that program’s meteoric rise (and eventual demise) to propose a solution to that same crisis. Launching in the early 1970’s, the IHP was the "Great Books" brainchild of a trio of KU professors-Dennis Quinn, Franklyn Nelick, and John Senior-who understood that wonder is not only the beginning but also the sustaining principle of the best education, and who sought to offset the radical disintegration permeating Western cult