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September 2018

September 11, 2018

Piercing Faith (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 6/12)

Faith is the divine virtue expanding our vision of everything. For those of us who...

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 09, 2018

The Just City (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 4/12)

Justice with Mercy When I was a boy I saw a slogan that stuck with...

September 08, 2018

Temperance Stirred Up Not Shaken in the Great Gatsby (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 3/12)

Temperance, that great virtue, amounted to not drinking alcohol to the progressives and that is...

September 07, 2018

The Prudence in Tom Jones (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 2/12)

Read. Read well. Karen Swallow Prior (KSP) will help you do both. I am reading...

September 06, 2018

On Reading Well: Introduction (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 1/12)

Reading. If a Christian, you are in a religion that prizes literacy and has spread...

September 04, 2018

Our Heroes Should Have Included a Cow Doctor (Theobald Smith)

Growing Up Loving Cowboys When I met my first real cowboy at age five, I was...

September 03, 2018

Hope is the thing with feathers. . .

Do not be weary. Hope is here and asks nothing of us. These are not tiring...

September 02, 2018

Curmudgeon or Critic? (Mild Praise for Heraclitus)

Sometimes the kids do need to get off the grass, but after a certain age...

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 29, 2018

A lesson from Homer: Thus they tended the funeral of John McCain

The late John McCain had a father and grandfather who both became admirals in the...

August 28, 2018

Inherited Friends: Find them!

We can inherit height, eye color, and some propensities from our ancestors, but we might...

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 23, 2018

Rumors of Rain: Must Read Food for the Soul

Professor Timothy Bartel has published the work of California poet and teacher Jonathan Diaz in Rumors...

August 22, 2018

Day of Glory: It’s Coming

Never smile at a crocodile and never fight with a man experiencing the Day of...

August 21, 2018

Hector Us O Lord We Pray

Hector us, O Lord, we pray. And no, we do not wish God to bully...

August 20, 2018

The Birth of God: Having a Theogony

If God exists, then He has no beginning and no end by definition. God exists,...

August 19, 2018

Georgia Should Be On Our Minds

If you want hope, Georgia should be on your mind. I wanted currency to visit...

August 17, 2018

If We Love Justice, then We Will Return to the Discussion Again and Again (Last Day of Summer in the Republic 70)

I just read of a leader who is tired of hearing about justice issues. “Didn’t...

August 16, 2018

Good for the Soul (Summer in the Republic 69)

“Mmm-mmm good.” That’s what Campbell’s Soups were: good. At least ads told kids this back...

August 15, 2018

The Charm of Edutainment (Summer in the Republic 68)

Imagine a college administrator so obsessed with the “college experience” that he was willing to...

August 14, 2018

Be stupid like Socrates! (Summer in the Republic 67)

An older man I knew once said to me: “I have not gone to enough...

August 13, 2018

Savoring the Good for Its Own Sake (Summer in the Republic 66)

Sometimes there is a good time that is not fancy, but comes simply, quietly, and...

August 12, 2018

Justice is Better than Injustice: Starting Ready to Learn (Summer in the Republic 65)

He was a teacher who would not give up on almost any student. I saw...

August 11, 2018

Wisdom, She Cries Out: No Slack Given in the Argument (Summer in the Republic 64)

If you love wisdom, then you pray for mercy from God, because wisdom is unrelenting....

August 10, 2018

I would really like to persuade you. (Summer in the Republic 63)

“I would really like to persuade you.”** Socrates is confronted with his failure to persuade his...

August 09, 2018

Just Some Moderns in Windsor: The Bowdlerization of Our Minds (Summer in the Republic 62)

The Royal Shakespeare was technically perfect, energetic, and missed the point of the play or...

August 08, 2018

Doing Well: He Was Never Contented With Too Little (Summer in the Republic 61)

I stood in front of his stone in the English church and read words carved...

August 07, 2018

Persuasion, Not Winning: Leadership Must Persuade (Summer in the Republic 60!)

We need more persuasion and less winning. Persuasion is a rule based method of helping...

August 06, 2018

Get some Energy (Summer in the Republic 59)

A class needs time to develop, in college at least three hours, but getting the...