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  • Back in the Saddle Again: Some Reflections on Schools and Students

    Back in the Saddle Again: Some Reflections on Schools and Students0

    In late December, I agreed to teach a Latin class in a small, private Catholic school here in Front Royal, Virginia. The headmistress had approached me several times in years past about coming back to the classroom, but always, I had refused, in large part because of my already hectic schedule. This time was different.

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  • The Dead Will Have Their Say

    The Dead Will Have Their Say2

    In his classic work Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton penned these profound words about tradition: Tradition is only democracy extended through time. … Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit

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  • Battles We Can Win: Family, Morality, Education

    Battles We Can Win: Family, Morality, Education2

    In “Burke on Our Crisis of Character,” which appeared in the December 2023 issue of Chronicles, Bruce Frohnen notes, “The American Way was real, rooted in families whose rights trumped the demands of the state because families were more natural and fundamental than the state.” The following month in the same magazine, Stephen Baskerville reviews

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  • The Fruits of Freedom: Barbara Feigin’s ‘My American Dream’

    The Fruits of Freedom: Barbara Feigin’s ‘My American Dream’0

    In her recently published memoir My American Dream: A Journey From Fascism to Freedom, Barbara Sommer Feigin begins by recounting her escape in 1940 as a 2-year-old from Nazi Germany to the United States. She recreates this trek, which ran from Europe across Russia to Japan and then to America, using a journal her father

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