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  • Bullying Video Goes Viral Days after U.S. City Votes to Fine Parents for Child Bullying

    Bullying Video Goes Viral Days after U.S. City Votes to Fine Parents for Child Bullying0

    The city council of Shawano, Wisconsin, recently passed an ordinance that will allow the city to fine parents whose children are caught exhibiting “bullying behavior.” Via Fox59 Indianapolis: Under the new ordinance, parents will be warned if police determine their child bullied another child. Parents have 90 days to address their child’s behavior. If their child

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  • Can We Really Know Ourselves?

    Can We Really Know Ourselves?0

    “This above all: To thine own self be true.” – Polonius (From Hamlet) “Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself.” – G. K. Chesterton On this very

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  • The one Trump comparison you haven’t heard yet

    The one Trump comparison you haven’t heard yet0

    The race for the Republican presidential nomination has provided pundits with ample opportunity to claim that we have reached an all-time low in terms of fractiousness, divisiveness and vulgarity. Not so. A quick look to the Classical world lays to rest such a naive assumption. Politics under any system of government is always a dirty

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  • Cartoonist Fired After Poke at Big Ag CEOs

    Cartoonist Fired After Poke at Big Ag CEOs0

    Rick Friday, the longtime cartoonist whose drawings had appeared in the Iowa-based publication Farm News for more than two decades, drew his final cartoon for the publication last week, he said. In a Facebook message posted April 30, Friday suggested he was fired because his cartoon “insulted” someone affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned

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  • True Education Involves Suffering

    True Education Involves Suffering0

    One of the best pieces of educational advice I’ve heard in recent months didn’t come from a book or a talk about education. It came from a film about wine. This past week I watched A Year in Burgundy on Netflix. I highly recommend this documentary not only for the information it provides on the winemaking process,

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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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