Aristotle taught that every good deed requires a beautiful image. A healthy American republic requires a steady supply of good deeds, great and small. Then it stands to reason, America needs a great store of beautiful images designed to help us maintain our way of life and preserve equal justice, liberty, and law. Dr. Mehan is at the end of his long research and writing project to complete his illustrated, semiquincentennial celebratory work, The American Book of Fables. Join him for a discussion of what must be done to restore the American Imagination.
This talk is a part of our Founding Freedoms Lecture Series, that seeks to help Capitol Hill Staff think more deeply about the freedoms bequeathed to this nation – and the religious tenets that undergird them.
Dr. Matthew Mehan is the Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Government for the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C., location on Capitol Hill. He has been teaching and designing humanities curricula for twenty-five years. Dr. Mehan graduated valedictorian from the University of Dallas, and he received from his alma mater a B.A. in Politics, an M.A. in English, and an honors Ph.D. in Literature on the education of leading citizens. For over a decade, he has also taught for the College’s Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program for undergraduates.
Dr. Mehan has consulted for national leaders and heads of state. He has written for various outlets both scholarly and popular, including Moreana and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of The Handsome Little Cygnet as well as Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals, an illustrated, best-selling book of poems that one critic called ‘a new classic’ in children’s literature. He is on the board of advisors for Hillsdale’s K-12. His lovely wife and their passel of children live in Virginia.
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