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January 2019

January 08, 2019

Plato, Christianity, and Keeping a Republic

In the center of God’s educational program for humanity were the Jewish people. For centuries...

January 07, 2019

A New Journal for Constantinean Techies

A teacher often has students who surpass him. Hurrah! One who writes here on occasion...

December 2018

December 23, 2018

The Problem is Never the Party: God help us to have jollification without harm!

Cromwell banned Christmas lest someone somewhere not be having approved fun. Truthfully merry making can...

December 22, 2018

Peggy and the Need for Feminism

Culture changes can make mild social injustices obvious, or unpopular, or create new ones. Changes...

December 17, 2018

Sorrow to Joy: Our Christmas Cup

The little tin cup sits in honor on our shelves on Christmas. The history of...

December 16, 2018

“Reason” and “Religion:” Why Religion does less harm, even when misunderstood.

Everyone should wish to be reasonable, just as everyone should wish to breathe. The unreasonable person...

December 16, 2018

“Reason” is Not Enough: Ask French Mobs

Every so often the mobs in Paris go mad and impose the madness on the...

December 14, 2018

The Man We Need: A Cathelineau of America

The bloody men in Paris get all the press: Robespierre the butcher tormented his countrymen...

December 12, 2018

Our Thoroughly Smug Thought Leaders and Us

O generation of the thoroughly smug and thoroughly uncomfortable, So begins a Salutation from Ezra Pound*...

December 03, 2018

The Necessity of the Stranger Friend (Laws)

We need stranger friends. Now this is not an appeal that people befriend me eccentricity...

November 2018

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 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 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 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 02, 2018

Thinking about the Old South (Arna Bontemps)

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

November 01, 2018

The Coming Party with the Once Dead: the Party of All Saints

Someday, if we choose to do so, we can party with the once dead. And...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

When Mars did not Attack: Fake News to the Max

They panicked over the fakery in the news. As many as a million people may...

October 27, 2018

The Need to Opine: Let’s Hold to What We Know Instead

Today an anti-Semite took a gun and killed good people, fellow Americans. I condemn this...