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May 2018

May 11, 2018

The Common People Can’t Know: A Very Bad Idea

Reading Ibn Rushd (Averroes) is good: He is a careful reasoner and a chief cause...

May 03, 2018

Thriving at College (A Good Book full of Good Ideas)

Bottom Line: Professor Chediak has written an instruction manual for college as we know it....

May 02, 2018

The Eternally Earthy: The Middle Way of Christianity

The happy human is betwixt looking up to the stars yet with feet on good earth....

May 01, 2018

Look Past the Temporal to the Eternal in Politics (Dante on US Politics)

There is a medicine for what is making us sick politically: A good dose of...

April 2018

April 29, 2018

Christina over Dante: A Better Rossetti for our TIme

I need more Christina and less Dante Rossetti. Both are (nearly) forgotten, so nobody should...

April 28, 2018

Let’s Not Cry Havoc and Let’s Chain the Dogs of War

Once the killing starts, deaths mount. The fringes, especially terrorists on the right, have started...

April 27, 2018

No, She chose beauty.

“No.” This is a powerful statement, particularly when said to what everyone is doing or...

April 25, 2018

Et tu, Bruté?—Then fall Caesar. He dies

Imagine reading a great work and deciding you are a hero. This will not go...

April 04, 2018

Bad Lincoln: the Deep Reach of White Supremacy

Children should be taught the virtues of good people and as they grow, learn that,...

April 03, 2018

Hard Not to Love, Impossible to Simply Love: the Difficult Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut

This year I teach some Lincoln, Douglass, and Booker T. Washington: heroes, even if flawed,...

April 02, 2018

Pachinko: Min Jin Lee’s Sprawling, Brilliant Novel

If you have a taste for Victorian novels, and you should, then Pachinko shows that...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Finding a Soul in God’s Image (Reflections on a Brothers Karamazov Discussion)

Pascha is the season of love. Love is the fundamental passion, the disposition to which...

March 27, 2018

“The Emperor Constantine,” Dorothy Sayers, and A Movie on Saint Paul

Dorothy Sayers wrote a nearly forgotten play The Emperor Constantine and reading this fine piece of...

March 26, 2018

Trickster Education: An Initial Reaction to an Important Book

I learned a good bit from Trickster Chases the Tale of Education by Sylvia Moore. This...

March 24, 2018

You’ve Been Left Behind: Remembering the Larry Norman Song

Satan Rules! It is on a record if you play it backwards! We used to...

March 23, 2018

The Devil, the Good Music, and Race: on the Greg Thornbury Book

The new biography about rock musician Larry Norman by Greg Thornbury is an important text...

March 22, 2018

The Devil Never Had All the Good Music: A Review of Thornbury’s Larry Norman Bio

Chancellor Greg Thornbury at The King’s College (NYC) has written a biography of the Jesus...

March 20, 2018

On Making a Slave and Screen Choices

You cannot make a man a slave only enslave him, but what if you can...

March 08, 2018

Living, Not Selling: Law, Education, and Christianity

We can put a monetary value on anything, but we should not sell everything. Some people...

March 05, 2018

Invisible Men: the Immortal Genius of Ralph Ellison

Read Invisible Man. Not the HG Wells sort-of-good book, but the work of an authentic...

March 04, 2018

The Argument (Like Learning) Continues

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a human in possession of a good education...

March 02, 2018

Clarity Counts

If you want an American to dislike Plato, then give them Parmenides as the first book...

March 01, 2018

A Great Stream of Truth: Reading Great Texts

Great books, ones that have inspired all kinds of people over a long period of...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

The Need for “The Elders” (a poem by Mari Evans)

The great victory of the Civil Rights movement was not given to the African American...

February 27, 2018

Vindicate God

When I was a boy, I was entirely unable to make crafts. To hand me...

February 25, 2018

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Read as Young and an Older Man

Malcom X never grew as old as I am now. Instead, he was gunned down...

February 21, 2018

Life as Continuum: Read some Mari Evans

Growing up more people knew Mari Evans than I encounter now, but then more people...

February 20, 2018

Hasty Argumentation

Yes, there are replies one can use to put a brake on this hasty argumentativeness,...

February 19, 2018

Heretics: The Many Adventures of a Free Thinking Scientist

Heretics: One Scientist's Journey from Darwin to Design* is the story of a bioengineer in Finland...

February 16, 2018

Knowing without Fully Knowing

Gregory of Nazianzus wrote, Conviction you see of a thing’s existence is quite different from...