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  • Releasing Fear During the COVID-19 Crisis

    Releasing Fear During the COVID-19 Crisis0

    “The world is too much with us,” wrote Wordsworth. Today, frightened by continuous coverage of COVID-19, few would disagree. “What you focus on creates your experience,” writes Winifred Gallagher in her book Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life. Gallagher continues, “choosing those targets wisely is the key to the good life.”  Gallagher wouldn’t advise ignoring COVID-19, yet

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  • Relativism is Enslaving

    Relativism is Enslaving0

    • April 7, 2016

    Holbrook Jackson: “Truth is one’s own conception of things.”   G. K. Chesterton: “The Big Blunder. All thought is an attempt to discover if one’s own conception is true or not.”   The above exchange between Holbrook Jackson and G. K. Chesterton summarizes the radical difference between the relativist and the realist in regard to

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  • Relativism and the Danger of Half-Digested Shakespeare

    Relativism and the Danger of Half-Digested Shakespeare1

    This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.                                Shakespeare – Hamlet (sic) These words from arguably Shakespeare’s greatest play were quoted

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  • Rekindling Romance in a Politically Correct Age

    Rekindling Romance in a Politically Correct Age18

    On a midsummer’s morning, a close friend and I met for coffee. Anne is married, retired, and the mother of four and grandmother of several. Although we talk often by phone, nearly two years had passed since we’d last seen each other, and we’d both, well, softened with age. For a while, we sipped our

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  • Rejecting CRT and Searching for Real School

    Rejecting CRT and Searching for Real School1

    The COVID lockdowns enabled parents nationwide to see inside their children’s public-school classrooms. Many realized their kids were being taught the divisive Critical Race Theory (CRT), a race-essentialist ideology, and have fought back any way they can. Some are homeschooling their kids, while others are enrolling them in parochial schools that do not teach CRT.

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  • Reintegrating the Humanities

    Reintegrating the Humanities0

    • May 5, 2016

    I have always sought to instill into my students that a knowledge of literature is not possible without an adequate knowledge of history, philosophy and theology. I stress, for instance, that we cannot know the plays of Shakespeare unless we know something about the time and culture in which he was living and the philosophical

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