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  • Reagan Biographer: Trump is Last Hope of Reaganism

    Reagan Biographer: Trump is Last Hope of Reaganism0

    Republicans today idolize Ronald Reagan more than any historic figure with the possible exception of Jesus. He is the gold standard of GOP politics, quoted on the stump by would-be lawmakers at the local, state, and federal levels, wonks at policy centers, and Bible-toting evangelicals. In the Washington Post on Monday, on what would have

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  • Reading to Your Child: This is why it’s so important

    Reading to Your Child: This is why it’s so important73

    If you are a parent or a teacher, you most probably read stories to young children. Together, you laugh and point at the pictures. You engage them with a few simple questions. And they respond. So what happens to children when they participate in shared reading? Does it make a difference to their learning? If

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  • Reading the Vanishing Volumes While You Still Can

    Reading the Vanishing Volumes While You Still Can0

    Reading through online headlines I often see a story entitled, “Demi Moore at 58 Hasn’t Aged Well.” Though I’ve never clicked on that link, I did google “Demi Moore at 58” and thought she looked pretty darn good. Sure, she’s probably gone under the plastic surgeon’s knife a few times—those high cheek bones seem a

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  • Reading Silently Used to be Considered WEIRD

    Reading Silently Used to be Considered WEIRD0

    Nowadays, the norm when reading a book alone is to read it silently to oneself. Apparently, this practice was unusual in the ancient world. As an undergraduate I had to read St. Augustine’s Confessions (397-400), which some claim to be the first autobiography written in the Western world. At the time, I remember being taken

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  • Reading Philosophy on Your Own

    Reading Philosophy on Your Own0

    Reading philosophy can be tough-going, and ideally, you have an expert to help you through it – at least initially. However, philosophy now has a diminished role in modern curricula, leaving most people to fend for themselves if they want to gain familiarity with the Western philosophical tradition. For those who would like to venture

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  • Reading Levels: 1908 vs. 2014

    Reading Levels: 1908 vs. 20140

    • January 13, 2015

    Some of you may remember the 1908 curriculum manual I dug up in the Minnesota Historical Society archives a few months ago. When compared with a current public school reading list, it demonstrated that today’s schools are offering a more narrow view of western civilization and a simplified level of reading material. I thought of this manual

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