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April 2019

April 14, 2019

The Story Will Save Us (Ten Truths from RMS Titanic)

The right story will save us if we believe it.* Not all stories are this...

March 2019

March 30, 2019

Dante to College Administrators: How much debt did our Lord insist from Saint Peter for a Divine Education?

I do not know if then I was too bold when I answered him in...

March 27, 2019

Trying to Help: What can philosophy do?

Tone is hard to get right in social media, unless you write with the clarity...

March 21, 2019

Some Strong Roots for Classical Education

Roots Needed Odysseus needed Ithaca and a mentor. Rehoboam shoud have listened, at least once,...

March 20, 2019

Charging for an Artificial Distinction: “Going” to “College”

If you went to college after an excellent high school or sent your children to...

March 19, 2019

Classical, yes. Trivium, maybe, eventually.

Classical. Christian. Education. What is it? Classical education is not a curriculum you can buy...

March 12, 2019

The Shield of Achilles (A Guest Post by James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

February 2019

February 07, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People- Gifts Flowing from the Grace of God (Charles Octavius Boothe 5/9)

We are as we are, but thinking shows we are not as we should be....

January 2019

January 19, 2019

The Joy of Missing Out: Education Takes Time

The most important thing I’d like to get across to you is this: It is...

January 14, 2019

Avoid the “Solution”- For Educational Pioneers

"Nothing, nothing, could be worse than this" is a prelude to something worse being put in...

January 11, 2019

The Next Step in Education or Beyond Authorial Intent: A Pause for a Fine Phrase (James A. Emanuel)

Writing every day impresses on me how hard finding just the right word, phrase, or...

January 10, 2019

Roots of My Platonism, or Neo-Platonism, or Neo-Platonic Christianity, or As You Will

I am a Christian because of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. I am...

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 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 01, 2018

The Color Line Cannot Be Ignored: An Example from the Columbian Exposition

Ida Wells: a leader in the fight for human dignity and against lynching. Nothing...

November 2018

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 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 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...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

As Long as You Are What You Are

We sat talking, a mountain rising over us and a green valley beneath us. The...

October 20, 2018

Eden to Bethlehem (Danielle Hitchen)

No grandchildren yet, and my children are grownups now, yet I have always loved picture...

September 2018

September 20, 2018

Five General (and Useful!) Truths Learned in Grad School: Here for Free!

Grad School: Fear Not! I had a lot to learn when I went to graduate...

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 30, 2018

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Philosophy

The sixteen and seventeenth century in the West took a splendid opportunity left them by...

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 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 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...