The moment I do well on my resolve to stay off my phone over the weekend, something happens that’s worth seeing. Influencer Paige Connell made a video on Friday about my article published here last week titled, “What happens when the man-hating feminists have sons.” The article explores the plight of young boys whose mothers
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“None of these young people want to work today. They’re lazy,” a friend at my favorite coffee shop recently asserted. “They’re ignorant. They don’t know a thing about history, and they never read books,” a phone friend has told me several times in conversation. “They’re all a bunch of snowflakes,” another friend said a couple
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I started studying Latin in first grade. Given that we barely understood the concept of “other languages” at that age, we began by simply memorizing Latin prayers, such as the Pater Noster (Our Father), Ave Maria (Hail Mary), and the classic blessing before meals. Our Latin teacher (Magistra, as we called her) managed to teach
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In the fall, trees draw all the nutrients from their leaves down into the trunk and earth-enmeshed roots, saving sustenance for the winter ahead. As the tree sucks in the lively green chlorophyll from its leaves, the underlying carotenoids become visible in the flaming yellows, oranges, reds, and browns of the autumn canopies. Then the
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When you think of beauty your mind may go to a sunset or landscape, maybe a famous painting or poem. It is less common to associate beauty with medieval Scholastic philosophy, especially that of a celibate priest named Thomas Aquinas. Ancient peoples leading up to the Scholastic period took beauty very seriously, believing that beauty
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Over 10 years ago, I began writing an autobiography of sorts on my blog based on meaningful objects in my home. These are the possessions – an ornamental sword from the long-defunct Staunton Military Academy, a slender Lladró figurine of a nurse I’d given to my wife Kris one Christmas, a large, time-battered desk she’d
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