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November 30, 2018

The Right Place to Talk: the Importance of Nature to Education

Only go to virtual college if you have a virtual soul. Take virtual communion if...

November 29, 2018

Is the city built on the gods or on men? (Laws)

When the state is divinized, tyranny follows. All rulers, even the best, are tempted to...

November 28, 2018

The Budget, the Local Church, and Who Is Helping: People not Money

Can we look at where a local church spends money and judge what that congregation...

November 27, 2018

See You at the Great Christmas my Brother . . . (On a Syrian Buried in Bath)

He was buried in a Roman province far away from home, this Syrian Christian. We...

November 26, 2018

No Ant Farm for Me: Counting Down to Christmas

Comic book ads were almost my downfall. One year I made what I thought at...

November 25, 2018

Number 1: Thank U Next (An Old Guy Reads the Lyrics and Wonders as He Writes a Review)

I try to listen and think about the number 1 song of the moment: Ariana...

November 24, 2018

Don’t Cross the Bridge (Think Differently)

He had the most famous sideburns in American history did General Burnside, but Ambrose Burnside...

November 23, 2018

The Christmas Movie that Helped Build Our School OR Why a Christmas Movie You Have Never Heard of Is the Movie You Should Watch Now

Hope and I did not know what to do. There were practical choices and yet...

November 22, 2018

People for Thanksgiving Dinner (The Feasters, not the Feast!)

Today social media gave me a chance to ‘find’ the six people who would come...

November 21, 2018

Thankful for Unearned Happiness

Sometimes we are paid what we are due, that’s just. Thank God, often we do...

November 20, 2018

Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom

Growing up and going to graduate school in Rochester, New York meant Frederick Douglass was...

November 19, 2018

Don’t Be a Party Pooper

A jingle from my childhood went: Every party has a pooper, that’s why we invited...

November 18, 2018

“Have Thanksgiving,” he said. And I was crabby.

“Be thankful,” the radio preacher said. My immediate reaction, God help me, was crabbiness. “I...

November 17, 2018

Speak with Courage, Kindness, and Clarity (Religious Liberty Today)

Religious Liberty is the Fundamental Human Liberty I have been listening to a biography of...

November 16, 2018

Thanksgiving in Vegas

Some cultures die as men of iron and blood. Nobody mourns them. If they had...

November 15, 2018

The Discussion Is the Thing Whereby to Capture the Conscience of the Culture (5/5)

Some classical educators just now claim they are the answer to what ails us, when...

November 14, 2018

The Heart of Classical Education or Avoid Starting World War I by Soft Headed, Hard Heartedness (4/5)

Williams Jennings Bryan stood in Dayton and battled for the humane. He was no scholar,...

November 13, 2018

The Beauty of Business: What Bad Classical Education Misses (Part 3/5)

In 1914 classically educated men destroyed the world. 1918 was a disaster where almost everything...

November 12, 2018

Classical Education: Recognition Not Everything is school, though everything is a School (2/5)

We live in perilous times. Classical education can help, but only if we take care....

November 11, 2018

Classical Education: Good Versions Can Save, Bad Versions Didn’t Stop World War I (1/5)

As I write on the eleventh day in the eleventh month, set to publish at...

November 10, 2018

Heroic Losers: On Why Winning Is Not Always Winning

We need more heroic losers. While getting more heroic losers, we might aspire to shed...

November 09, 2018

A Leadership Lesson from The Song of Roland or Why Charlemagne May Not Be Your Next College President, But You Might Consider Someone Like Him

Leaders: We Need Them Choosing a leader is hard and our present few decades of...

November 08, 2018

Look to the Long Term

Far Better Irrelevant for Now than Unserious Forever Events can make us feel powerless, because we...

November 07, 2018

Will Ye No Come Back Again: The Longing for Absent Leaders

God help us, but we miss our leaders, mostly the leaders we have never had....

November 06, 2018

Don’t you want to be free? Black Thunder and the Question for Our Time (Arna Bontemps)

“Don’t you want to be free?” That’s the question the enslaved people of the United...

November 05, 2018

“Times were so horrible,” the young Evangelical Whig explained to his Nana

“Times were so horrible,” the young Evangelical Whig explained to his Nana. “We cannot go...

November 04, 2018

“We Cannot Go Back” says the Person Reviving Whiggery: The Self-Referential Incoherence of the Young Evangelical Whigs

“We cannot go back! Do not be so nostalgic!” So says a certain kind of...

November 03, 2018

Trust in the God Who Knows

God knows. The cosmos is vast, but God knows our names and loves us. This...

November 02, 2018

Thinking about the Old South (Arna Bontemps)

Antebellum. Americans need the truth and for many the truth begins with killing a lie:...

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