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  • Why Ordinary People Enable Totalitarians

    Why Ordinary People Enable Totalitarians4

    Cicero said history “casts light on reality and is a guide to life.” The wisdom gained by understanding the past helps prevent the same errors from being repeated. Sebastian Haffner pursued answers to the questions of how the Nazis rose to power in Germany and why the German people did not stop them. In 1939, he wrote

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  • Why Only Villains Are Running for President

    Why Only Villains Are Running for President0

    Steven Pressfield has written best-selling historical fiction books such as Gates of Fire and Tides of War. He writes nonfiction as well; and in my development as a writer, few books have helped me more than Pressfield’s The War of Art. When Pressfield talks about writing, I listen. Recently he wrote a series of blog

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  • Why Only Christianity Can Save the West… Again

    Why Only Christianity Can Save the West… Again2

    Hellenistic thought experienced its “golden age” during the the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. This period witnessed the lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers, teachers, authors, and playwrights, and culminated with the spreading of Hellenism by Alexander the Great. But by the end of the 1st century B.C., Hellenistic thought had been exhausted. Its

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  • Why One Principal Sought to Dumb Down a High School Critical Thinking Course

    Why One Principal Sought to Dumb Down a High School Critical Thinking Course0

    There are few things in this day and age that bring people from both sides of the political aisle together in agreement. But one of the few things which does bring agreement is the need for school courses that teach students to become logical and critical thinkers. Because few schools offer such classes, many students

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  • Why One Mom was Right to Shun Her Child’s Perfect Attendance Award

    Why One Mom was Right to Shun Her Child’s Perfect Attendance Award0

    Rachel Wright made waves on Facebook last week when she announced that her son J.J. had received an award for perfect attendance during the preceding school year. Contrary to what one might think, the waves were not the result of a proud mother bragging on her child. Instead, they were the result of a mother

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  • Why One Inner City College is Bringing Back Plato

    Why One Inner City College is Bringing Back Plato0

    If we’ve learned anything in recent months, it is that the race, gender, or orientation of an author matters far more than the content of his or her book. As a result, many colleges are abandoning the works of literature which have long laid the foundation of western civilization. Being “woke” more often than not

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