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  • Back to School, and Time to Foster Creativity

    Back to School, and Time to Foster Creativity0

    Back-to-school season is here, and with the recent examples of race-based classroom activities and sexually charged curriculum in schools nationwide, parents are right to wonder what their students will be taught this fall. A recent commentary by an education reporter about his own children revealed that last year his sixth grader had no homework, spelling tests, handwriting

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  • Back to Homeschool

    Back to Homeschool3

    It began a few weeks ago: the back-to-school memes. One featured dejected kids dressed in new school clothes waiting for the bus while elated parents look forward to an empty house. My favorite meme so far is one with a mom in mid-kick, child flying through the air toward a waiting school bus. Freedom, at

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  • Back Row Kids: Dignity, Work, and the Vision of Williamson College

    Back Row Kids: Dignity, Work, and the Vision of Williamson College0

    On July 1, 1997, a massive rockslide closed I-40 between the Tennessee and North Carolina line. Boulders the size of school buses crashed across the highway and fell into the nearby Pigeon River. It took more than two months for work crews and government officials to clear away the debris – rocks, mud, trees –

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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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  • Back in My Day, Young’un…

    Back in My Day, Young’un…0

    • November 22, 2017

    As the saying goes, kids these days never had it so good. Monty Python made a great sketch based on this idea: old men complaining about the young people of today and competing as to who had the most uncomfortable upbringing. To paraphrase, “back in my day I had to walk to school and back,

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  • Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises Once Had Dinner Together, and It Can Teach Us a Lot About Intellectual

    Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises Once Had Dinner Together, and It Can Teach Us a Lot About Intellectual0

    At the International Society for Individual Liberty’s Conference, Milton Friedman once gave a speech titled “Say ‘No’ to Intolerance” (you can find the transcription here) where he criticized the sectarianism of a part of the libertarian movement. To illustrate his point, he told an anecdote, which can be found in Barbara Branden’s biography of Ayn

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