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Story: A Summer With Aristotle

Finally the academic radicalism of the past couple of decades seems to be waning as students and their parents demand that educators get serious about the reading curriculum. Book camps like the one at Stanford are springing up all over. Schools such as Princeton, Brown, and Dartmouth have erected centers dedicated to giving students what they’ve been sadly lacking: the defining texts of the Western canon. Robert George, a professor at Princeton, says students have an appetite fort the Great Books: they look forward to “sitting down with Plato, St. Augustine, and James Madison, to think through the perennial issues of politics and citizenship.” In the past nine years Princeton’s James Madison Program has grown to 100 to 125 students on a campus where the average class size is fewer than 19.