Reddit reviews Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties

The conservative viewpoint of the humanities tends to be focussed on the Western Canon and the great books curriculum or Classical education. A common conservatives opinion is that a classical liberal arts education is critically important and valuable, but that modern Academia mired in revisionist theories and nihilism and leaving students adrift in a sea of electives taught by radicals has lost the thread and are now largely useless at best and more often than not are actively destructive.

A few books about the humanities, philosophy, art & education by conservatives and/or approvingly cited by conservatives.

• The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
  
  
• The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers
  
  
• God and Man at Yale By William F. Buckley
  
  
• The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana by Russel Kirke
  
  
• How Should we Then Live by Francis Schaeffer
  
  
• Modern Times By Paul Johnson.
  
  
• The Well Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
  
  
• The Closing of the American Mind by Alan Bloom