In the wake of ecological catastrophe, the world teeters on the edge of collapse into a new dark age. The Green Vanguard has stepped into the vacuum of power left by the disintegration of the old order. Forcefully reshaping society to conform to their stringent ideology, this movement has carved an island of brutal stability in a sea of deepening chaos. Jack Murphy, a young man growing up on the banks of the Sunken City, knows nothing other than life under the thumb of this regime in which the use of technology is reserved for the ruling elites. Jack leads a quiet life, helping his uncle...

Music, when approached as a part of a classical liberal arts education, is a profoundly humanizing endeavor which can facilitate individual musical and moral growth within communities of practice. A classical approach to music education contrasts with common progressive and critical curriculum frameworks through a philosophically realist analysis. From this perspective, a classical education serves as an induction into the liberal arts as a living tradition of cultural memory rooted in the transcendentals of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Further, because a classical liberal arts education is...

Music, when approached as a part of a classical liberal arts education, is a profoundly humanizing endeavor which can facilitate individual musical and moral growth within communities of practice. A classical approach to music education contrasts with common progressive and critical curriculum frameworks through a philosophically realist analysis. From this perspective, a classical education serves as an induction into the liberal arts as a living tradition of cultural memory rooted in the transcendentals of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Further, because a classical liberal arts education is...