Those who are bringing back classical education as an alternative to the deadends evident in John Dewey’s progressive education are familiar with the trivium: grammar, logic, and rhetoric, the three liberal arts that lead to a mastery of language. The other four liberal arts, the
Colleen LaRose is a white, middle-class suburbanite from Pennsylvania. She became a terrorist recruiter known on the Internet as Jihad Jane. She was arrested for her involvement in a plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist whose caricature of Mohammed inflamed the Islamic world. from BBC
Mollie Hemingway writes about media coverage of sex-selective abortion, particularly in China and India where families want sons and so get an abortion if their in utero baby is a girl. This even has acquired a name, something to add to our vocabulary: gendercide. Mollie
A New York lawmaker has introduced a bill that would ban restaurants from cooking with salt. Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt
Christopher Hitchens is currently one of the major evangelists (if one can use that word) for atheism. His brother Peter, though, another British journalist, is a Christian. You have got to read Peter’s account of how he changed from atheism to Christianity and how he
Germany has played nice since the end of World War II, trying to expiate its guilt by pushing for the European Union, sacrificing the solid Deutschmark for the ups and downs of the Euro, and using its strong economy to bail out other European countries.
A baby woolly mammoth has been discovered in Russia’s frozen tundra. Not a fossil, not bones, but an intact woolly mammoth! It will be displayed in Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. Wooly mammoth carcass from Siberia reveals information about ice-age creatures – washingtonpost.com.
You have got to read the story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of the founder of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, who became an Israeli spy and then a convert to Christianity. How did that latter part happen? It was very simple: During those
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is no conservative, but he is worried, very worried about the deficit. He sees what is happening in Greece as our future: Look into the face of George Papandreou, America, and see your future. The Greek prime minister is in
Maybe not exactly, but the Academy Awards give Roger Simon reason to think that the ideological spectrum in Hollywood may be widening: The 2010 Academy Awards may not have marked the end of “liberal Hollywood” as we know it, but they certainly put a solid
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