Announcing Torch and Tub
Andrew Ellison's new Friday Column for ClassicalEd Review Subscribers
Not Quixot enough to attempt to reason Bedlam to Rights, my Anxieties are turned to the most practicable Means of withdrawing us from the Ruin into which we have run.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816
ClassicalEd Review is pleased to launch a new weekly column by our friend and contributor, Andrew Ellison: Torch and Tub, a.k.a. TnT. If “TnT” makes you think both of Nietzsche and AC/DC, then this column is for you.
Readers familiar with Andrew’s presence on LinkedIn can expect similar topics treated at greater length: liberal education, higher and lower; non-scholarly reflections on the great books; challenges and controversies within the classical education movement; savage critiques of all forms of Folly, especially those perpetrated or excreted by the Progressive Educationist Establishment (PEE); unnecessary footnotes about Germanic philology.
Andrew currently serves the University of Dallas as VP of Enrollment Management for all undergraduate and graduate programs. Prior to joining the C-suite at UD, he worked in classical charter education for almost 30 years in two states, first as a teacher, then as a headmaster, and ultimately as that most loathsome of educratic creatures, a district administrator. He is currently being treated for stage 4 cancer, so we here at ClassicalEd Review are finding it particularly difficult to rein him in. We hope you enjoy watching us fail to do so.
Torch and Tub, named as an homage to Diogenes the Cynic and to the nearly-untranslatable Austrian satirist and journalist Karl Kraus (1874-1936) will appear every Friday, except when it doesn’t.