Education

A Tale of Two Houses 1
- Education, Religion
- August 21, 2023
Jake Meador’s article in The Atlantic* about the decline in American church attendance gave me a different perspective on some thoughts I’ve been mulling over about the other great non-profit American institution: higher education. Meador begins with the question, “What if the problem isn’t that churches are asking too much of their members, but that they
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Why Are Some US Street Lights Turning Purple?0
- Education
- August 18, 2023
I saw it for the first time in Wichita, Kansas. My coworker was driving a shuttle carrying myself and a few students from a guest speaker event, and I noticed something strange—a purple street light. I initially brushed this off as some weird mishap, but as we drove on I noticed dozens of purple street
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A Case for the Lost Art of Memorization 4
- Education
- August 17, 2023
Memorization and recitation became part of my life through a club I was part of in middle and high school. With the club, I had the opportunity to recite patriotic speeches and poems along with chapters from the Bible in front of an audience of veterans, law enforcement officers, and first responders just about every
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Stupefying the Privileged 3
- Education
- August 16, 2023
A recent discussion with a friend of mine turned to COVID and its effects on her children, particularly in the ways the schools responded to the situation. COVID, she explained, really escalated the use of screens in school. Before COVID, politicians and others could commonly be heard extolling the need for every child to have
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What Al Sharpton Could Learn About Education From Madison and Jefferson 2
- Education, Culture
- August 11, 2023
Last week, Rev. Al Sharpton caused some titters to erupt across the internet by his commentary on the Trump indictment over the Jan. 6th issue. “One day our children’s children will read American history,” Sharpton said, “and can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they could
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‘Can’t You All See Me?’: The Blindness of Academic ‘Antiracism’3
- Education, Featured
- August 8, 2023
Earlier this year, in an interview on a CNN podcast, one of the figureheads of contemporary so-called antiracism, Ibram X. Kendi, unwittingly described the effect of his own work and that of others in his movement: “And so, I mean, the attack on history, the attack on education opens the door to mass ignorance. And
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