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Back to the Basics Is the Key to Teaching Our Children to Read
- Education, Family, Featured, Literature, Politics, Uncategorized
- October 13, 2025
Editor’s note: Please note that this article contains discussion of crimes such as sexual assault. We believe the stories, while disturbing even when told with minimal detail, deserve mention and honest reporting. In recent weeks, riots have broken out across the U.K., with rival gangs of native Britons and Muslims clashing. The police response has
READ MOREThe news cycle moves so quickly these days that we can forget to dwell on major events. But tyranny thrives on a short attention span. Just a couple of years ago, we witnessed government dictates turn the entire world into a highly regimented military encampment. A Military Response: The Role of the National Security Council
READ MORESome college students today face a self-imposed dilemma unknown to our forebears: Which bathroom do I use? One example is Cecil, a student at the University of Alabama who believes that she is a man. Now, Cecil is afraid that Alabama’s laws and regulations may limit the freedom of that bathroom decision-making process. As reported
READ MOREA human community, then, if it is to last long, must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place. Practically speaking, human society has no work more important than this. These are the words of farmer and writer Wendell Berry in his essay “The Work of Local Culture.” We
READ MOREMany Americans believe our world’s becoming more secular. While that’s true, many of today’s fastest-growing religious denominations aren’t progressive—they’re traditional. Here’s what the data show. In the 1990s, 90 percent of Americans identified as Christians on Pew surveys. Today, that number has fallen to about 67 percent. Among young adults, over 40 percent are religiously
READ MOREI didn’t have a name for it. I just knew I hated it. That’s how I felt when I first began studying literature at a public university and encountered a morass of muddled ideas about literature, language, and truth that all but spoiled the beauty and art of great books, which was what had caused
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