"Though the lot of church-related colleges is hard nowadays,” Russell Kirk wrote in National Review in 1971, “one promising new liberal-arts college (most decidedly Catholic) has appeared: Thomas Aquinas College, near Malibu in southern California. It offers much for mind and conscience. It is intellectually rigorous; it is unabashedly Christian; and it is on a humane scale. Its doors (those of a former seminary) will open to undergraduates this autumn. The institution does not expect to enroll more than three hundred students, ever."
Thomas Aquinas College (TAC) has withstood the test of time. Forty-eight years later, it's still traditionally Catholic, grounded in a great-books curriculum, and dedicated to studying the foundational documents of the American political order.
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