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• March 1st, 2021

  So when an institution—a University, say, or a farm, or a hospital—is the bearer of a tradition of practice or practices, its common life will be partly, but in a centrally important way, constituted by a continuous argument as to what a University is and ought to be or what good farming is or what good medicine is. Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead. *

• 📰 The Long Path that Leads from the Making of Our World to God

  Indeed, to protect myself and my students I was obliged during the period 1985 to 1992 to undertake a First Amendment law suit against the University, since the University was undermining my right to teach what I believed to be true.

• 📙 After Virtue

  So when an institution—a University, say, or a farm, or a hospital—is the bearer of a tradition of practice or practices, its common life will be partly, but in a centrally important way, constituted by a continuous argument as to what a University is and ought to be or what good farming is or what good medicine is. Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.