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  • Do Yourself a Favor and Memorize a Poem

    Do Yourself a Favor and Memorize a Poem22

    Several times a year I require my students to memorize a poem. Sometimes I choose for them (say, “Death Be Not Proud,” by John Donne). Sometimes I hand them an anthology and let them choose. I don’t explain rhyme scheme or poetic devices. I only ask that the students know the meaning of every word

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  • Do Your Child a Favour – Give Them a Mission in Life

    Do Your Child a Favour – Give Them a Mission in Life1

    Generation Y– my generation– and those since, (Millenials, iGen, Dot-Commers or whatever you want to call anyone younger than 30), have received at least one message from Western culture loud and clear: “Have a good time.” This principle holds well in Peter Pan’s fantastical home Neverland where no one has to grow up, but in

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  • Do You Want Fries With That? Thoughts on a Liberal Arts Major

    Do You Want Fries With That? Thoughts on a Liberal Arts Major0

    Over the past two decades, the liberal arts have taken a beating. University students in droves have backed away from taking degrees in English literature, history, and philosophy, turning instead to what they regard as more marketable majors such as business, mathematics, computer science, and even fitness training. In many cases, professors and entire academic

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  • Do You Want a Revolution? Sing.

    Do You Want a Revolution? Sing.2

    On April 17, 2007, the day after 32 people were killed in the Virginia Tech mass shooting, thousands of students stood in the center of campus for a candlelight vigil. Two trumpeters played “Taps,” while a few of those gathered sang “Amazing Grace.” Apart from that, the crowd was silent. In the aftermath of the tragedy,

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  • Do You Live in a Sunshine City or a Sinkhole City?

    Do You Live in a Sunshine City or a Sinkhole City?0

    Truth in Accounting has released its 2020 report on the Financial State of the Cities, which ranks the fiscal friendliness of the 75 most populous cities in the country according to their Taxpayer Burden or their Taxpayer Surplus. Here’s how the nonprofit fiscal watchdog group describes how it determines whether a city imposes a burden on

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  • Do You Live in a Bubble?

    Do You Live in a Bubble?0

    Charles Murray, libertarian and scholar at American Enterprise Institute, has argued for some time that the upper classes in American society are increasingly becoming disconnected from poor and working class whites. The thesis was the crux of his 2012 book, “Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010.” PBS recently released a second version of

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