The Subversive Art of a Classical Education by Michael S. Rose

Reviewed by Tim White

New York: Regnery, 2026
312 pp., $32.99

Michael S. Rose’s new book, The Subversive Art of a Classical Education: Reclaiming the Mind in an Age of Speed, Screens, and Skill-Drills, is the most interesting sort of paradox: the sort that would be most beneficial to those least likely to recognize its value. Beautifully written and skillfully argued, the book…