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1,000 Good Books to (Slowly) Consider
- Education, Featured, History, Literature, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- July 14, 2025
Among the biggest questions lingering from the Harvey Weinstein scandal is how this secret—which apparently wasn’t much of a secret at all—could have been kept for so long. It’s especially amazing since keeping this silence involved a lot of talking: Lawyers were talking to and paying off women who had been abused to keep them
READ MOREIn 1815, as Andrew Jackson stood before his men a war hero following the Battle of New Orleans, he spoke of his mother, who had been dead three and a half decades. “Gentlemen, I wish she could have lived to see this day. There never was a woman like her,” Jackson intoned, according to historian
READ MOREI barely knew my father. As is typical of my generation, my parents separated and then divorced when I was only four or five. After picking up the pieces of his shattered existence, my father reentered my life with some regularity when I was about 8 or 9. And by that, I mean I got
READ MOREWhether conjured up by something I ate before bedtime, or by the cheesy horror flick I watched a few nights before, or by something else, I just don’t know – but I tossed and turned through one of the most vivid dreams last weekend that I’ve ever experienced. The Dream I was in a classroom
READ MOREThe biggest mystery of American politics is why the media failed to take Donald Trump’s campaign for the Presidency seriously. A year ago he was a just a vulgar buffoon; now he is the presumptive nominee of the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan and could easily become the next leader of the free world.
READ MOREPeople with a master’s degree or doctorate can bank on a much higher starting salary than those with the same major but only a bachelor’s degree. That’s according to a recent survey of employers by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. We reached the same conclusion about the payoff for advanced degrees in a
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