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December 2018

December 05, 2018

For the Humanities PhD: Some Sort Of Advice

I get questions.* For a person who teaches by asking questions, these are always tricky...

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 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 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...

October 2018

October 28, 2018

A Very Bad Way to Understand Texts or An Error I Made So You Do Not Have to Do So

Plato wrote a great many books and we are blessed with all of them. You...

October 16, 2018

An Artificial Controversy (A Guest Post by Dr. Eric Holloway)

I am (on occasion) asked about design and ideas surrounding design. Some questions are in...

October 12, 2018

A Better Soul Over Time (Republic Book X)

Education is not getting a credential, but making the soul more like it should be...

September 2018

September 10, 2018

Courage, Jim, and Huck (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 5/12)

The best professors make you see in a new way, consider again old opinions you...

September 01, 2018

Growing Up: Telemachus Finally Does or Better Late than Never

Sometimes life makes becoming an adult hard. Everything conspires to keep a boy from becoming...

August 2018

August 27, 2018

The Better Road Not Taken (The Failures of the Seventeenth Century)

1616 came and Shakespeare and Cervantes died, but Bacon kept writing his way to a...

August 18, 2018

Work and Liberal Education: Hands that Act based on a Good Heart and a Virtuous Head

Don’t just talk, do things. Do not just do things, talk and then do things....

August 05, 2018

The End Can Turn Out to Be the Beginning (Summer in the Republic 58)

The community was so bad, educating people so difficult, and tyranny so much in fashion,...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

Avoiding Edutainment in a Classroom Built for Haste (Summer in the Republic 52.5)

We are gluttons for edutainment, the thought- free substitute for education that gives us little...

July 26, 2018

What Happens When Injustice Appears in a Nation (Summer in the Republic 49)

Plato could foretell the future, but he was no prophet. How? A wise person knows...

July 25, 2018

At Odds with Myself (Summer in the Republic 48)

We should not commit any injustice, but we are imperfect in a world marred by...

July 21, 2018

Human Happiness, Community, and Discussion- A Brief Excursion to Meno (Summer in the Republic 45)

“Is it better to be a happy cat or a discontented Socrates?” This question seemed...

July 18, 2018

Let the Arguments Happen! (Summer in the Republic 42)

Debate as a Life Strategy: No Formal debates may be good, I have done a...

July 06, 2018

Socrates is not Enough: Why Orthodoxy Matters (Summer in the Republic! 30)

Socrates without the hope of orthodoxy leaves us at a loss. This is both frightening...

July 03, 2018

Obey the Tyrant? Only if You Hate Him! (Summer in the Republic 28!)

We should be kind and the kind man does not shout at the people he...

June 2018

June 30, 2018

“Justice is for the Strong Only” (Summer in the Republic 25!)

“Winning is it’s own justification,” say many about to commit a monstrous act. For a...

June 27, 2018

Don’t marry an angry man. (Summer in the Republic 23)

My wife Hope, The Fairest Flower in all Christendom, gave our daughters an unbendable rule:...

June 24, 2018

How to Deal with the Tyrannical Teacher (Summer in the Republic 20)

Work for a tyrant and if you survive, you learn a great deal, but at...

June 22, 2018

The Rich and Powerful Or Their Parasites Wish to Redefine Justice (Summer in the Republic 18)

Saint James said of the rich and powerful: Is it not the rich who are...

June 18, 2018

Avoid Thoughtless Quoting (Summer in the Republic 14)

The thoughtless often go looking for a thought by quoting someone thoughtful. We receive a...

June 10, 2018

Questions for the Old and Young (Summer in the Republic 6)

I am in the youth of old age. So says my mother and she is...

June 07, 2018

How Democracy Dies (Summer in The Republic 3)

Democracy dies in the light looking around for edutainment, hoping for an enlightenment that is...

June 06, 2018

Rene and Georgette Magritte and I miss Warren Throckmorton

I love the song Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog after the War. Two...

June 05, 2018

Look for Truth Yourself (Summer in the Republic 2)

Busy people wish to short circuit learning, but there is not a fast way to...