Let’s pay a visit to Little China in Front Royal, Virginia. I’m not talking about China City Buffet, that wonderful restaurant where I used to take my grandkids for their birthdays. Nor do I mean the nearby Virginia International Academy, which despite its name caters only to Chinese students transitioning into American universities. I do
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Several years ago I got into a conversation about classical education in which my conversation partner asked, “Isn’t that the kind of education that all those overachieving homeschoolers are into?” I had to laugh. Yes, classical education has that reputation. But the high-achieving nature of classical education hasn’t deterred interest. In fact, classical curricula are proliferating
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In a previous essay at The Imaginative Conservative, I looked at Christopher Dawson’s critical fear that the United States and the United Kingdom had become fascistic in their respective quests to fight fascism. Dawson, of course, was not alone in expressing such a belief. C.S. Lewis had claimed the same in his profound essay, Abolition of Man (1943), and his
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Can you name the seven traditional cardinal virtues? Author G.K. Chesterton makes it easy, dividing the seven into “pagan” and “Christian” virtues. Among the former were prudence, courage, temperance, and justice. Among the latter were faith, hope, and charity. Humility apparently didn’t make the cut. Was it worth defending? Chesterton certainly thought so. But since
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Twelve-year-old Lucie Wise couldn’t wait to open her own business. On three separate occasions, she had accompanied her mother to the Children’s Entrepreneur Market – an expo of child-run businesses hosted annually by the Utah nonprofit Libertas Institute – dreaming of the day she could set up her own booth and sell her wares to curious passersby.
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One hundred years ago this month, the Women’s Suffrage Amendment became the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This amendment is simple and reads as follows: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account
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