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- Culture, Featured, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
- August 18, 2025
A report issued this week by The Pioneer Institute, a Boston-based a public policy think tank, sheds light on the rapid growth and diversity of the U.S. homeschooling population. Co-authored by William Heuer and William Donovan, the comprehensive white paper explains that despite a paucity of support from government officials–and outright opposition by the nation’s
READ MORELike many news outlets at this time of year, The Boston Globe recently profiled several young high school students preparing for the pomp and circumstance of graduation. But The Globe took a different angle than normal and stepped inside the world of a homeschool graduation ceremony: “‘Pomp and Circumstance’ played softly from computer speakers hooked
READ MOREAuthor’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages had been given the gift, not only to peer into the twenty-first century, but to correspond with we who live in that most confusing and rudderless of centuries. Had it been in their power
READ MORESing, Muse, of Achilles’ anger and its devastation … and of the will of Zeus which was done. – Homer The opening lines of Homer’s epic, The Iliad, say it all. In these first few words, the poet betrays his purpose and unpacks the deepest meaning of his work. He begins with a prayer to
READ MOREAuthor’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages had been given the gift, not only to peer into the twenty-first century, but to correspond with we who live in that most confusing and rudderless of centuries. Had it been in their power
READ MOREHomer Simpson is far from a good person. Among his many defects are alcoholism, sleeping on the job, a general disregard for the law, a gambling problem, and child abuse in the regular strangling of Bart. Yet in spite of his many moral shortcomings, there is one way in which the Simpson family patriarch has
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