The TIC is an educational institute that helps students, and others, delve deeper into life's big questions. It promotes the search for wisdom - a deeper understanding of meaning and happiness in human life.
Center activities are informed by the classical and Christian sources of Western Civlization - from Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to C.S. Lewis and John Paul II - and by the natural law tradition that provided the moral framework for the American Founding.
The Center accomplishes its purpose by offering young people educational opportunities that help them to integrate their studies into a coherent whole, by promoting research and writing in the classical and Judeo-Christian intellectual tradition, and by sponsoring lectures, classes, and discussions open to all. The Center deals with important cultural issues such as human dignity, the capacity of human beings to know objective truth, personal integrity, the right to life, marriage, and constitutional government.