The Center for Ethics and Culture mourns the loss of Amy A. Kass, brilliant teacher and beloved friend, who passed away on Wednesday. CEC public policy fellow Yuval Levin remembers her in a tribute at National Review:

Amy Kass, who died yesterday after a long and courageous struggle with cancer, was without a doubt the best teacher I ever saw in action. What she did so masterfully was, in a sense, simple: She would throw a great work of fiction in front of a group of eager, overconfident students, invite them to open it up and turn it over and over together, and then gradually help them discover that it had actually opened them instead.

Read the rest here. The Center offers its deepest condolences to her family and loved ones. 

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