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Jason M. Baxter Knows Why Literature Still Matters.

Jason M. Baxter Knows Why Literature Still Matters.

Update: 2025-08-25
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Jason M. Baxter is a speaker, college professor, and author of eight books, including the best-selling Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis, A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Comedy, Why Literature Still Matters, and now a new translation of Dante's Comedy. On his Substack, Beauty Matters, he writes about the role of the humanities in our technologically driven age. He currently works at Benedictine College in Kansas as the Director for the Center for Beauty and Culture. In this episode, Dr. Baxter and Jonathan Rogers talk about why literature matters, and how the arts begin to close the gap between who we are and what we long for.

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Jason M. Baxter Knows Why Literature Still Matters.

Jason M. Baxter Knows Why Literature Still Matters.

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