Education

Your Attention Is Valuable. Stop Wasting It.0
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Featured
- November 6, 2025
In conversations about social media, online activity, and entertainment standards, people like to talk about how much “content” they “consume.” I’ve grown to hate these two words. “Content” is such a general term that we may as well say “things.” (“I’ve been looking at a lot of things online.” “Our marketing strategy is to produce
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Finding Heaven in Hard Things 1
- Culture, Education, Featured, Health, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- November 5, 2025
“Is this heaven?” Shoeless Joe Jackson asks Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams. I’ve always loved that line. Growing up on an Iowa farm, we had our own ball field behind our house. My dad built a backstop for my brothers and me long before Kevin Costner ever heard “The Voice.” On summer evenings, Dad would
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Why We Need to Recognize Entertainment’s Hidden Messages 0
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Family, Featured, MomThink, Western Civilization
- November 3, 2025
“I’m just not affected by it.” This statement captures the common attitude toward entertainment today. More often than not, we think that what we consume on our screens is harmless and detached from our values or behavior. But is it? “We become what we behold,” the saying – often attributed to Marshall McLuhan, a philosopher
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Don’t Set Reading Goals. Build Reading Habits.2
- Featured, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Family, Literature, Western Civilization
- October 24, 2025
One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions—alongside “Lose weight” and “Improve relationships”—is “Read more.” Most people feel a moral burden to get through as many books as possible in a year. It’s drilled into us from a very early age that reading is associated with success in life, and successful people reinforce this idea
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Hanging Out With the Homesteaders 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- October 21, 2025
Recently I attended the 2025 Homesteaders of America Conference in Virginia. Some 6,500 organizers, speakers, vendors, and attendees packed the fairground parking lots and a couple of acres of grass with cars and trucks, and blessed by a bright sun, had a grand time together. Here under tents were companies like Home Grown Collective, Egg Brigade Chicken
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Back to the Basics Is the Key to Teaching Our Children to Read 22
- Education, Family, Featured, Literature, Politics, Uncategorized
- October 13, 2025
Between 1900 and 1950, literacy among Americans 14 years and older rose dramatically. The 1950 Census found that illiteracy was below 3% in two-thirds of the states and below 10% in all states. These studies defined illiteracy as a complete inability to read English or any other language. Seventy-five years later, that definition has changed a bit,
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