Philip Psaledakis wrote his senior paper on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on the first two books. He explains: “The first book raises the question of...

Yesterday, Ezra Klein invoked St. John’s College as an exemplar of a much-needed humanist counter-revolution in education, which we could oversimplify as “Great...

Guy Dunphy (SF26) decided to write his seminar essay on Gulliver’s Travels, focusing mainly on the narrator’s experience of shame in the fourth part, the voyage...

With graduation approaching, many seniors are gaining clarity on what they would like to do afterwards. Lia McGrath (SF25) discusses her intention to pursue mat...

Ira Levin’s novel, The Stepford Wives, begins with this inscription from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, which all students read while at St. John’s: Toda...

With just two weeks until seniors graduate, we are savoring every last moment. Here, we celebrate Ahana Adak and the completion of her senior oral on John Milto...

As the Pritzker Student Center is under construction—which will result in a bigger and better coffee shop, dining hall, great hall, and more—students are bringi...

Hear our seniors give some advice on how best to approach writing your Senior Paper. Remember, choose a question that is meaningful to you, choose an advisor yo...