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An Undeserved Nobel Prize in Literature3
- Literature, Culture
- November 2, 2022
One purpose of literature is to draw people closer to the good, true, and beautiful. Authors find formulas to express the best of human nature, even when framed by tragedy or adversity. The writer should present perspectives that elevate, captivate, and draw others to consider sublime ideals. Thus, many literary authors were revered and remembered
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How to Connect Teens With Good Books8
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- November 1, 2022
Lately, I’ve been reading from M. F. K. Fisher’s The Art of Eating. I say “from” because this thick volume contains five books Fisher wrote on cooking and dining. And her prose is as exquisite as the dishes she recommends. While reading this book, the thought suddenly hit me: Why aren’t our students reading this
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Some Thoughts on Halloween and Ray Bradbury2
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- October 31, 2022
In 2015, blogger Amanda Russo posted a humorous piece “Why Halloween Is Actually A Pretty Weird Holiday.” As Russo says, on Halloween we encourage our kids to take candy from strangers. We threaten our neighbors with “Trick or Treat.” We spend a chunk of change buying and giving away sugary treats, often to people we
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Raising Girls to Be Real Women4
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- October 18, 2022
I recently wrote an article providing some forgotten tips on how to raise boys to be real men. But boys aren’t the only sex that we need help raising. Boys are getting sucked into the feminist vortex of our culture, but that vortex also is swallowing girls at perhaps an even greater frequency. So how do we raise
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Making the Most Out of Our Winter of Discontent0
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- October 13, 2022
In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the Witch casts an evil spell over Narnia, making it a cold and barren land, locked in snow and ice where it’s “always winter but never Christmas.” Now, there’s a chilling thought. It’s still early October and last night the mercury dropped into the
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The Classics Are for Everyone, Not Just Old, Dead, White Men6
- Education, History, Literature, Western Civilization
- October 7, 2022
Yes, yes, and yes! That was what I shouted, in the silence of my heart, when I finished Louis Markos’ online review “How Classical Education Can Liberate Black America.” Earlier that same week, I’d read yet another account of an attack on the classics of Western civilization, the Great Books as they were once called,
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