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  • Books, Boys, and Heroes

    Books, Boys, and Heroes0

    My previous article, “Stories About Real Heroes Can Help Make Heroic Boys,” drew readers’ attention to the good that comes through exposing boys to literature and history featuring flesh-and-blood heroes. Superheroes have a place in the imagination of the young, but sooner or later, boys realize that the only superpowers in real life are those

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  • Books in Brief:

    Books in Brief:0

    Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay (Pitchstone Publishing; 352 pp., $27.95).  To understand wokeness, I often ask students to explain why they add the word “social” to “justice.” They have yet to provide a satisfactory answer. My subsequent requests for

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  • Books Are Inconvenient – and That’s a Good Thing

    Books Are Inconvenient – and That’s a Good Thing0

    When I was a child, my parents built a library with 15-foot bookshelves, which, as it turned out, weren’t large enough to hold all my father’s books. His desk and armchair were surrounded by a forest of stacked volumes so that you had to navigate carefully to make it through the room. I caught his

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  • Books and Those Who Read Them Are the Real Endangered Species

    Books and Those Who Read Them Are the Real Endangered Species1

    In the February 2021 issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Professor Mark Brennan declares, “My students look at me in amazement when I tell them I read 8 to 10 hours per day. I look at them in amazement when they tell me they play video games 16 hours straight.” Brennan then went on

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  • Booker T. Washington’s Racial Compromise?

    Booker T. Washington’s Racial Compromise?1

    I first read Up from Slavery ten years ago and was quickly surprised that it wasn’t required reading for every educator, that is, until I read the critics. In his autobiography, Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) leaves us an equal bounty of moral wisdom and caution that all began with his dream to learn. Education and merit are

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  • Booker T. Washington’s 3 Tips for Today’s Schools

    Booker T. Washington’s 3 Tips for Today’s Schools0

    Although it hasn’t been discussed very much this election cycle, it’s a well-known fact that education in the United States is in a sorry state. Something must be done… but what? That same question was likely in Booker T. Washington’s (1856-1915) mind as he struggled to educate and advance the position of freed black slaves

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