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  • Constitution Day: What did your kids do?

    Constitution Day: What did your kids do?0

    I had the pleasure of visiting Agamim Classical Academy, a K-6 charter school in Hopkins, Minnesota dedicated to providing “students with a classical, liberal arts, challenging, and inspiring education,” for its Constitution Day celebration. When many public schools seem leery of openly embracing traditional American patriotism, even going so far as to banish students wearing clothing with

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  • Constitution at stake in this year’s election?

    Constitution at stake in this year’s election?0

    If Senate Republicans are true to their word, the next president of the United States will nominate Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement. Given the age of several other members of the Supreme Court and rumors of others’ retirement, it is likely the next president will make as many as four nominations. This potentially dramatic change in

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  • Conservatives Strike Back Against ‘Ideological Tidal Wave’ in School District

    Conservatives Strike Back Against ‘Ideological Tidal Wave’ in School District0

    It’s widely believed that there is a strong liberal bias in America’s public school system. Yet, by all accounts, most conservative-minded Americans still send their children to the local public schools, in spite of a growing ideological divide in this country. But why? Some do it because of economic necessity; others, because they place a

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  • Conservatives Shouldn’t Sacrifice Their Principles for Trump

    Conservatives Shouldn’t Sacrifice Their Principles for Trump0

    In his play “The Knights,” the Athenian playwright Aristophanes creatively and humorously showed the insidious power of demagoguery. A satire written in the 5th-century B.C., the play depicted a Greek city-state that was succumbing to weaknesses of democracy. “The Knights,” one of the oldest Greek plays to survive, pits two smooth-talking demagogues against one another. One

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  • Conservatives Once Condemned Dropping of Hiroshima Bomb

    Conservatives Once Condemned Dropping of Hiroshima Bomb0

    President Obama’s speech at Hiroshima on May 27 has predictably sparked much controversy. Without parsing it all, I suggest that the key message so many dislike is this: “Hiroshima teaches this truth: Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom

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  • Conservatives Need to Support the Arts. Here’s Why.

    Conservatives Need to Support the Arts. Here’s Why.0

    “Don’t lose your soul.” During my senior year of high school, I heard this warning over and over when I shared with my conservative Christian community that I planned to major in theatre alongside English literature. “The arts are dangerous nowadays.” This December, I will receive my Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration

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