Book Description Through best-selling books and now blockbuster motion pictures, C. S. Lewis’s masterpiece The Chronicles of Narnia has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of children and adults. When Lewis wrote this acclaimed series more than half a century ago, many considered it
A blue-ribbon presidential panel charged with figuring out what has gone wrong with math education in this country. Here is a summary of the findings. They include this observation: Children badly need both automatic recall of math facts and understanding of big concepts, in effect
We’ve been Superdelegates as Hamlet The idea is that the Superdelegates are having trouble making up their mind. What Shakespeare characters are the various candidates and other players? HT: Jackquelyn
Vatican Updates Its Thou-Shalt-Not List: In the Vatican’s latest update on how God’s law is being violated in today’s world, Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, was asked by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano what, in his opinion, are the “new sins.”
My friend Rich Shipe proposes a topic: He writes, “Has anyone done anything on Modernism and Post-Modernism and their impact on the food we eat? For food are we still under Modernism or have we moved into post-modern food? Americans generally eat garbage and what
Here is a useful breakdown of each of the democratic Superdelegates, who they are and who they are for. Right now, 190.5 superdelegate votes go to Hillary Clinton and 148.5 go to Barack Obama. Still not committed, though, are 250, so we will see the
Paul McCain points to even more critical acclaim for our man Lucas Cranach, whose art is being featured in a major exhibit at the Royal Academy in London. Listen to Laura Cumming marvel at how modern, how new, how relevant Cranach seems. She even says
Patrick Henry College is known for its internships. One of our journalism students, Heather Terwilliger, scored an internship with USA TODAY. That is huge in itself, a plum opportunity and getting it was a great accomplishment for Heather. But her accomplishments on the job were
David Mamet is one of the few contemporary playwrights and screenwriters whose work, in my experience, is always worth taking in. He has announced, in an essay in the Village Voice, no less, that he has experienced a change of heart and is now a
The artist, that is, not the blog. A big tip of the beret to Paul McCain’s Cyberbrethren for alerting me to this story from England about a big Lucas Cranach exhibit at the Royal Academy. The art critic goes on and on about the creativity,
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