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Hosted by Cherie Walsh · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 33 episodes
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Cherie Walsh hosts Life of the Mind: Brookewood & Avalon Schools, a education show with 33 episodes published.
I talk with Ann Royals Vitz and Julia Chandler about a book that's been circulating among the Brookewood faculty: The Hidden Power of Kindness, by Fr. Lawrence Lovasik. We find this book, abridged in 1999 from its origin
In this episode, Ann, Andrea, and I talk about, first, Leah Libresco Sargeant's The Dignity of Dependence, and then Sue Ellen Browder's Subverted. Sargeant's book elicited a variety of responses from us, and we admire he
This episode is a recording of a talk Kevin Davern, Headmaster of Avalon School, gave to parents. The talk, “Cultural Attitudes That Work Against Educating Children: Help Your Children Do Well in Virtually Any School” id
David and I talk about The Religion of the Day, the sequel to From Christendom to Apostolic Mission from the University of Mary's Msgr. James Shea and Dr. Jonathan Reyes of the Knights of Columbus and others. The first b
Camino visionary Rich McPherson and I talk about his experience of walking the Camino of Maryland the second time. The first experience of the Camino had to do with the route and with camaraderie among friends, along wit
Rich McPherson joins me to discuss Fr. James Shea's long essay From Christendom to Apostolic Mission: Pastoral Strategies for an Apostolic Age. The essay asks that we first acknowledge we are no longer living in a cultur
David Steiner, the executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, is the author of A Nation at Thought and spoke at the New York Encounter, where he spent his day with Avalon and Brookewood presi
The podcast is back! We apologize for the hiatus, technical in origin, and are delighted to have returned, now with this conversation with fellow English teacher Elizabeth Eames. Together we discuss The Atlantic's articl
In this new episode, I (host Cherie Walsh) talk with Andrea Francois and Fr. José Medina about Christine Rosen’s new book, The Extinction of Experience. Building from our previous work on Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Gen
I am excited to talk with Andrea Francois and Fr. José Medina about Jonathan Haidt's book The Anxious Generation. Haidt's book was the faculty summer reading at Brookewood, and we like his thesis. We talk about the phone
Andrea Francois and Ann Vitz join me for a discussion of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch. The novel uses its contemporary idiom (and some rough material) to discuss some of the great themes of literature: art vs. life, morta
David Booz and Andrea Francois join me to discuss Brief Loves that Live Forever, Andrei Makine's 2013 novel exploring the end of the USSR. David was keen to talk about Makine, as Erik Varden mentions him in The Shatterin
Podcast regular David Booz joins me to talk about Erik Varden's The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Remembrance. When a friend gave me this book as a present, I thought she felt sorry for me, but once I got past t
In this episode, Fr. José, Brookewood chaplain and teacher, and I talk about the diaries of Etty Hillesum. Hillesum was in her 20s in the Netherlands when she wrote her diary about her external experience during the Nazi
David Booz and Andrea Francois join me for a discussion of Professor Yascha Mounk's new book, The Identity Trap. We talk about what we learned from reading Mounk's history of identity politics from Foucault to Ibram X. K
In this episode, I talk with Mrs. Ann Vitz, longtime Brookewood parent and new Brookewood teacher, about her program, Great Moral Stories, which we're implementing in grades K-12 this year. Based on Core Virtues by Mary
Today I talk with Rich McPherson, Head of Brookewood and President of Avalon and Brookewood, to learn how he spent his summer vacation. Having made a number of one-day pilgrimages and thought for a long time about multi-
David, Andrea, and I (with improved audio) sit down to discuss two works by Josef Pieper. These two works are both important and accessible to non-philosophers. In Leisure, Pieper posits that real leisure relies on a cap
In Episode 16, I'm joined by Andrea Francois and David Booz to discuss the Hungarian Lazlo Foldenyi's collection of essays. We talk about the title essay, the problems Foldenyi finds with Enlightenment rationalism, and t
Fellow Upper School English teacher Liz Eames and I discuss the New Yorker article "The End of the English Major." We explore the phenomenon, its causes, and general trends in our culture, along with shifts in university
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