The Art of Being Human: What "Old Books" Can Tell Us (And Warn Us) About Living in the 21st Century

MICHAEL S. ROSE is author of several previous books, including Goodbye Good Men, Ugly As Sin, and Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger. He holds degrees in Architecture (Cincinnati), Literary Arts (Brown), and Education (Xavier), as well as the Certificate of School Management and Leadership from Harvard Business School. From 2005 to 2021 he served as Book Editor and Associate Editor for New Oxford Review, in which some of these essays appeared in slightly different form as a part of his monthly "Literature Matters" column. He also taught literature, composition, journalism, and rhetoric at the college and high school levels before assuming his current position as Headmaster of Cincinnati Classical Academy. He is married with five children and lives in Cincinnati.