The new issue of the St. Austin Review is at the printer.

The theme is “Education as if Truth Mattered”. It’s not to be missed. Subscribe now by following the link on this site.

Here are the highlights:

Pope Benedict XVI on Education.

Blessed John Henry Newman on Education.

Dominic A. Aquila looks at “Faith, Reason and Communitas in the Modern Academy”, seeking to recover “the dream of concord”.

Louis Markos is “Rehabilitating the Liberal Arts”.

Dale Ahlquist examines “Chesterton on Higher Education and Vice Versa”.

Joseph Pearce also focuses on “G. K. Chesterton and Modern Education”, seeing it in terms of “Homo Viator versus Homo Superbus”.

Kevin O’Brien admires “The Magic of Theatre”

Fr. Dwight Longenecker explores “Imagination, Emotion, and Enlightenment at the Movies”

James Bemis continues his exploration of the greatest films with an examination of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”

Fr. Benedict Kiely expresses his desire for “a return to civility”

Robert Asch casts a wise and wistful eye over the recent London Riots

Kevin O’Brien reveals the ugly side of “the religion of political correctness”

Ellen A. Carney reviews “Beauty for Truth’s Sake”, Stratford Caldecott’s new book “on the Re-Enchantment of Education”

David Rozema admires a new edition of La Rochefoucauld’s “Maxims”

Matthew P. Akers reviews “The Lost Arts of Civilization” by Mitchell Kalpakgian

James Como reviews Ron Austin’s “Peregrino: A Pilgrim Journey into Catholic Mexico”

John Marson Dunaway reviews Marie Cabaud Meaney’s new book on Simone Weil’s “apologetic use of literature”

Paul Baxa reviews Luise Rinser’s novel, “Leave If You Can”

Pavel Chichikov reviews Joseph Pearce’s biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Jonathan Potter admires Ruth Asch’s first book of poems