Our Mission
The Heights Forum is a department of The Heights School. We assist parents, school leaders, and teachers in their own efforts to educate boys into men fully alive. Through in-person and digital resources we share our experience in forming the hearts and minds of boys, and invite you to join the conversation.
Formation for the Body: Lifelong Functional Fitness
Featuring Dan Lively
In our school communities, we talk a great deal about moral and intellectual formation. But physical development, too, has an essential place in the whole-person, long-term vision of what our sons and students can become. Heights Athletic Director Dan Lively reminds us that the goals of athletic training don’t begin and end with high school sports. In fact, lifelong functional fitness is in service to every vocation. It ensures that we and our sons are capable of having a positive impact—on the world and in our families—for as many years...
AI and the Hype Cycle
By Tom Cox
When a technology is first introduced and improved rapidly in its early iterations, the trajectory of improvement is drawn up to infinity. But evaluating the tendencies and tradeoffs can help us to see new technologies more clearly.
Why Beauty Matters: The Postmodern Pressure on Our Interior Life
Featuring Dr. Jason Baxter
One philosopher of our time claims that “today, the experience of beauty is impossible.” Dr. Jason Baxter, director of the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine College, begs to differ. Dr. Baxter joins us on HeightsCast to unpack his latest book, Why Literature Still Matters, which looks at why such a claim might feel true in our digital age. Then, he talks us through why and how we should reclaim our experiences of beauty for the health of our soul.
What Is Your Level of Boy Tolerance?
By Alvaro de Vicente
As a culture, we have a decreasing tolerance for boyhood itself. In his latest post, Alvaro de Vicente reframes boyish energy as the raw material of virtue, not to be stifled at every occasion. As parents and educators, we must elevate our “boy tolerance” if we are to raise dangerously good men.