Category: HeightsCast

Our headmaster often uses this paradigm for the ideal Heights graduate: he’s the kind of young man you’d want your daughter to marry. In a recent article for the Forum, Dr. Joseph Lanzilotti asked: in our current culture, how does a boy grow up to be the kind of man who desires that life? Delving into Church sources, both scriptural and magisterial, he has assembled the outline of a theology of masculinity. Responding to Pope St. John Paul II’s description of the “feminine genius,” Dr. Lanzilotti considers the prospect of…

The “moving walkway” toward the future will go forward; at which stop should you get off? How can you pick a path on purpose—not due to momentum?

How does a school community grow united in its vision and sense of mission?

Former faculty Dr. Matthew Mehan’s newest family book offers an education in civics, geography, history, and love of country, presented for the A250 year.

As a top cybersecurity expert, Mark Ryland shares how AI really operates and what kind of impact it may have on the job economy our children inherit.

AI tech has come knocking at the classroom door. How do we best educate citizens—rather than simply users?

Increasingly, the vision we as parents have for our children is in direct competition with the vision big tech has for them.

Saving civilization well may begin with eye contact, a tucked shirt, a sincere apology, or a held door.

How have we allowed such a daring story as the American founding to become a history lesson so simple, tidy, and inevitable that it can be covered in one day’s class? Dr. Spalding invites educators (and everyday citizens) to understand our nation’s founding as so much more than just “an Enlightenment experiment.”

Why tell the truth when it doesn’t always pay? It’s important to let a boy encounter this question through example, literature, and enough freedom to wrestle with his own conscience.